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Tore Anderson · 09-16-2014

In last night's mainteance window, I was going to change one of my UCS systems from FC Switching Mode to FC End-Host mode. The intention was to be able to reach the storage systems through an external FC SAN, instead of the current situation where th...

Tore Anderson · 01-27-2014

Hi. I have a UCS system running version 2.0(5a). I'd like to upgrade it to 2.1(3b), but the warning in the release notes about the removal of default zoning has me worried, as I have a couple of directly attached FC storage arrays, and my Fabric Inte...

Tore Anderson · 10-21-2015

While it's been quite a while ago we did this work, so I might be forgetting details, it does seem like you've got it covered. That said, you'll need to ensure that all the initiators will be zoned to the exact same SP port on the CX4, since its init...

Tore Anderson · 10-20-2015

I did, but I had to schedule a (disruptive) maintenance window. If I recall correctly the downtime wasn't too long (maybe 10-15 minutes or so), but we had to stop all I/O and shut down all the service profiles that were booting off the SAN, so it was...

Tore Anderson · 09-16-2014

«In my opinion, the documenation needs to be corrected»Fully agreed. Not only the documentation, though, it's even more important that the UCSM user interface is updated. If the «Are you sure..» warning pop-up had as much as hinted at the fact that t...

Tore Anderson · 09-16-2014

Thanks for your reply. The thing is, my FIs restarted simultaneously. It didn't happen sequentially, as the documentation you're quoting suggests. That's indeed the crux of the issue, because had the FI reboots happened sequentually (similar to a inf...

Tore Anderson · 01-28-2014

The only "supported" use of direct attach FC storage required an upstream SAN switch.Well, this is an oxymoron. If you're putting a switch in between, it no longer is directly attached.Also that directly attached storage isn't supported as of V1.4 an...

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Non-disruptive upgrade path 2.0 ->2.1 when using default zoning?

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