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Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE
'50:00:d3:10:00:ed:b2:3b', and '50:00:d3:10:00:ed:b2:41'. This zoning configuration is allowing all four
storage ports to communicate only to each other and the server FC HBA node.
On the fabric B FC switch you can see the WWPN of the server HBA port is '10:00:8c:7c:ff:30:7d:28'
and the WWPNs of the storage ports are '50:00:d3:10:00:ed:b2:3c', '50:00:d3:10:00:ed:b2:42',
'50:00:d3:10:00:ed:b2:3a', and '50:00:d3:10:00:ed:b2:40'.
Another useful FC switch command to check what ports are connected is 'switchshow'.
Figure 18: 'switchshow' command on fabric A FC switch displaying connections on FC ports
As you can see in Figure 18 above, since we are using virtual port mode on the Dell Compellent
storage array, instead of the normal F_Port text as shown on port 2 which is connected to the FC HBA
on the server, we see "1 N Port + 1 NPIV public". In this case the F_Port is actually a VF_Port and the
N_Port is actually a NV_Port.
Note, both controllers on the Compellent storage array are active and each fabric has two paths to
controller A and two paths to controller B. They are all logged into the fabric. Unlike in legacy mode,
with virtual port mode, a virtual connection from a VN_Port can fail over to another physical port in
the same domain as long as the port being failed over to is on the controller that is the primary
controller for the volume. In legacy mode, in this case, four ports would be reserved for failover. See
Compellent documentation for more information on Compellent configuration.
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