Configuring I/O Blade Ports - ADIC Scalar i2000 Installation Manual

7 In the Select I/E Magazines dialog box, select the location of one or more I/E station magazines. Make
sure that you select the appropriate module, since the Scalar i2000 can have I/E stations in the control
module and in any other expansion module.
8 Assign an I/E station magazine by selecting its check box. You can identify an I/E station magazine by
its location coordinates.
9 Select Next to proceed.
10 In the Partitions – Summary Information dialog box, verify that the parameters you set are correct.
11 To create the partition, select Create.
12 In the Partitions – Completed dialog box, review the information to make certain it is correct.
13 Optionally, select Next to identify and view the details of the drive or drives assigned to the partition.
Select Finish to close the Partitions dialog box.
Proceed to Configuring I/O Blade

Configuring I/O Blade Ports

At installation, all I/O blades arrive with default settings of all ports set to target and in loop mode. You will
need to configure the ports with the appropriate settings to ensure proper operation at the outset. In general,
ports one and two of the six fibre channel ports available on an I/O blade should be set to target mode for
receiving host commands. The remaining ports, three through six, should be set to initiator for
communicating with drives.
To configure a port
1 Select Setup > Connectivity > Port Configuration...
The Connectivity dialog box is displayed. All components that provide FC and SCSI ports show in the
dialog box if they are detected.
2 Select an I/O blade to expand its list of ports.
3 Select a port and select Configure.
The Fibre Channel Parameters dialog box is displayed for the FC port.
a. On the Fibre Channel Parameters dialog box, configure the loop ID as appropriate for the
arbitrated loop that is connected to the I/O blade. The default Soft settings work in most
situations, though some operating systems require hard ID settings.
b. Select Auto to automatically set the interface speed. To configure the speed manually, clear
the Auto check box and use a setting from the drop-down combo box.
c. FC Frame Size is specified by each receiving node and need not match any other node. The
frame size is typically set to 2048. (It may be appropriate to use another frame size if required
by a particular software application.)
d. FC ports support Private and Public fibre channel attachments. Set the port to Target mode
or Initiator mode, as appropriate.
9 shows a port in initiator mode. In Target and Initiator mode the port operates in both modes
simultaneously.
e. The default connection option mode is Loop. Other options for target ports include Loop
Preferred, Point to Point, and Point to Point Preferred. For initiator ports, the only
connection option is loop.
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Ports.
Figure 8 shows an example of a port in target mode. Figure
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