Zoning Fc Switches - EMC VNX VG2 Setup Manual

Zoning FC switches

For example, if you set the primary private address for the Control Station (default
128.221.252.100) to 10.12.17.100, then the primary private addresses are set to:
10.12.17.2 for blade 2
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10.12.17.4 for blade 4
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10.12.17.50 for the enclosure 0 right-side management module
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10.12.17.100 for Control Station 0
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The same rules apply to the backup subnet.
"Private LAN worksheet" on page 280
you need to change the private LAN addresses, record the new values in this
worksheet.
Once the blades have been network-booted, the Control Station collects the World
Wide Names (WWNs) of the Fibre Channel ports in the blades. A WWN identifies a
port in a Fibre Channel fabric, much like a MAC address in an Ethernet network, and
is based on the enclosure WWN seed value. The WWNs are used to zone the Fibre
Channel switches.
When selected, the auto-configuration script automatically sets up the Fibre Channel
switch zones by using single initiator zoning. The auto-configuration script
configures each gateway blade with four zones (each blade port is zoned to one port
on each SP).
The script prompts for the network address and login credentials of each switch. The
setup script supports Fibre Channel switches from the following manufacturers:
McDATA, Brocade, and Cisco. Refer to the EMC E-Lab™ Interoperability Navigator
on Powerlink for supported firmware revisions of your switch. If a Fibre Channel
switch works with the VNX gateway, then it will work with auto-configuration.
The setup script cannot automatically zone the FC switch if:
The switch password is still set to its default value. Set the switch password to a
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value other than the default before using the script.
The switch contains uncommitted zones or configurations. Commit or delete
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these zones or configurations before you continue. This prevents the setup script
from overwriting any existing fabric zoning, or configurations the customer
might want saved but has not committed to the configuration.
The gateway system has a 10 Gb FCoE I/O module in slot 0 of the VNX blade
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enclosures. See "Zoning FCoE switches" on page
If the auto-configuration script cannot zone the customer's Fibre Channel switches,
or if the default zoning is not acceptable, then you can manually zone the switches.
Manual zoning uses the administration program provided by the switch
manufacturer.
The correct switch zoning enables the blades to communicate with the arrays over the
Fibre Channel fabric. By default, each blade is zoned to each SP on a VNX array. For
Symmetrix arrays (DMX, VMAX, and VMAXe), each blade is zoned to two different
channel directors.
Note: You must manually zone the FC switch if you are using a Symmetrix array for the boot
array. Appendix F, "Manually Zone Switches and Configure System LUNs,"
information about manually zoning the FC switch.
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