[Info-vax] new VMS setup

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 10:25:44 AM UTC-4, pcoviello at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 12:50:12 AM UTC-4, Mark Berryman wrote: 
> > On 4/30/21 3:07 PM, pcov... at gmail.com wrote: 
> > > we received a new BL870c with cisco 9148s switches and an 8440 3par. I've connected fibre cables as of right now between the switch and a current 2660 and the 3par, but no luck seeing the disks I have presented to the 2660. 
> > > 
> > > i configured the switch with the following is there a step after this? 
> > > none of the lights on the switch turned green. 
> > > 
> > > also on the blade I am unable to access the virtual connection window due to flash no longer supported on my windows box, 
> > > 
> > > any thoughts 
> > > 
> > > thanks 
> > > Paul 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > NHSANSW1(config)# show zone 
> > > zone name facs vsan 1 
> > > pwwn 50:01:43:80:01:69:74:84 2660 
> > > fwwn 20:0c:8c:60:4f:ef:a1:c0 switch 
> > > pwwn 20:01:00:02:ac:01:a6:e1 3par 
> > > fwwn 20:05:8c:60:4f:ef:a1:c0 switch 
> > > pwwn 21:01:00:02:ac:01:a6:e1 3par 
> > > fwwn 20:06:8c:60:4f:ef:a1:c0 switch 
> > > pwwn 22:01:00:02:ac:01:a6:e1 3par 
> > > fwwn 20:07:8c:60:4f:ef:a1:c0 switch 
> > > pwwn 23:01:00:02:ac:01:a6:e1 3par 
> > > fwwn 20:08:8c:60:4f:ef:a1:c0 switch 
> > > 
> > You shouldn't need the fwwn entries. 
> > 
> > Did you create a zoneset containing the zone? 
> > Did you set the zoneset active? 
> > Have you put license acquire statements on the ports in use and turned 
> > them up? 
> > It sounds like you have multiple switches. Have you configured any 
> > ports as expansion ports to connect the switches together? 
> > 
> > There are a lot of steps to configuring a SAN switch. You've only shown 
> > a tiny piece here. 
> > 
> > Mark Berryman
> this was everything I had done up to this point. I was able to activate it and change operational state 
> 
> yes 2 switches nothing configured on the 2nd one. 
> 
> license statements? 
> 
> 
> 
> NHSANSW1(config-if)# show vsan 
> vsan 1 information 
> name:VSAN0001 state:active 
> interoperability mode:default 
> loadbalancing:src-id/dst-id/oxid 
> operational state:up


more progress. VMS though still doesn't see the new lun.

NHSANSW1# show interface fc1/12
fc1/12 is up
    Hardware is Fibre Channel, SFP is short wave laser w/o OFC (SN)
    Port WWN is 20:0c:8c:60:4f:ef:a1:c0
    Admin port mode is auto, trunk mode is on
    snmp link state traps are enabled
    Port mode is F, FCID is 0x710000
    Port vsan is 2
    Speed is 8 Gbps
    Rate mode is dedicated
    Transmit B2B Credit is 5
    Receive B2B Credit is 64
    Receive data field Size is 2112
    Beacon is turned off
    admin fec state is down
    oper fec state is down
    5 minutes input rate 0 bits/sec,0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec
    5 minutes output rate 0 bits/sec,0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec
      146 frames input,7808 bytes
        0 discards,0 errors
        0 invalid CRC/FCS,0 unknown class
        0 too long,0 too short
      146 frames output,7872 bytes
        0 discards,0 errors
      0 input OLS,0  LRR,3 NOS,0 loop inits
      3 output OLS,2 LRR, 2 NOS, 2 loop inits
      64 receive B2B credit remaining
      5 transmit B2B credit remaining
      5 low priority transmit B2B credit remaining
    Interface last changed at Sun May  2 10:30:08 2021

    Last clearing of "show interface" counters  :never


and as far as license... all ports have this

interface fc1/1
  port-license acquire

interface fc1/2
  port-license acquire

interface fc1/3
  port-license acquire

interface fc1/4
  port-license acquire