Connect The Switch To A Fabric - HP storageworks 2/32 Installation Manual

Installing and Configuring the Edge Switch 2/32

Connect the Switch to a Fabric

To provide Fibre Channel connectivity between public devices and fabric-attached
devices, connect the switch to an expansion port (E_Port) of an HP director or
switch. The switch port to switch port connection is called an interswitch link
(ISL). To fabric-attach the switch and create an ISL:
1. Ensure the switch is defined to the HAFM application (defined while
2. Ensure the preferred domain ID for the switch is unique and does not conflict
3. Ensure the R_A_TOV and E_D_TOV values for the switch are identical to the
4. Route a multimode or single mode fiber-optic cable (depending on the type of
5. Connect the switch-attached fiber-optic cable to the port SFP transceiver.
6. If the switch is managed by an attached HAFM server, go to
7. At the HAFM server's Product View page, double-click the switch icon. The
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performing "Enabling HAFM to Manage the
with the ID of another switch participating in the fabric. To change the
domain ID, see "Configure Switch Operating
values for all switches participating in the fabric. To change the values, see
"Configure Fabric Operating
SFP transceiver installed) from a customer-specified E_Port of the switch to
the switch.
switch is managed by the Embedded Web Server interface:
a. Choose View at the left side of the window. The View window opens with
the Switch tab selected and displayed.
b. At the View window, click the Port Properties tab. The Port Properties
page displays with 0 selected, and port information listed for port 0.
c. Choose the port number of the port used to make this ISL connection.
d. Ensure the Operational State field displays Online and the Reason field
displays N/A or is blank. If an ISL segmentation or other problem is
indicated, refer to the HP StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/32 Service Manual
to isolate the problem. If no problems are indicated, installation tasks are
complete.
Hardware View page for the selected switch displays.
Switch" on page 46).
Parameters" on page 55.
Parameters" on page 58.
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step 7. If the