Vsans - Cisco N5K-M1600 - Expansion Module - 6 Ports Troubleshooting Manual

VSANs

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Regions for conditional service
When a conditional service goes down (deregisters with CFS), it loses its region configuration. When
the conditional service is restarted, it is automatically placed into the default region. To avoid this
situation, reconfigure the appropriate region information for the conditional service before starting it
again.
Changing regions
If you move an application from one region to another, you might encounter a database mismatch when
attempting a merge. To identify and resolve the conflicts, see
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When an application is moved from one region to another (including the default region), it loses all
Note
history.
VSANs
This section includes an overview of troubleshooting VSANs followed by a description of common
problems and their solutions.
Overview
Most VSAN problems can be avoided by following the best practices for VSAN implementation.
However, if necessary, you can use the fabric analysis tool in Fabric Manager to verify different
categories of problems such as VSANs, zoning, FC domain, admin issues, or switch-specific or
fabric-specific issues.
Fabric Manager provides the configuration consistency check tool.
To use the Fabric Configuration option to analyze the configuration of a switch, follow these steps:
Step 1 From the Fabric Manager tools menu, choose Health > Fabric Configuration.
The Fabric Configuration Analysis dialog box appears.
Step 2 Determine whether you want to compare the selected switch to another switch or to a policy file.
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Click Rules to set the rules to apply when running the Fabric Configuration Analysis tool.
Step 3
The Rules window appears.
Step 4 Change the existing rules as appropriate and click OK.
Step 5 Click Compare to have the system to compare the configuration.
The results of the analysis are displayed.
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To compare the selected switch to another switch, select Policy Switch and then select a switch from
the drop-down list of switches.
To make a policy file comparison, select Policy File and then click the button on the right to browse
your file system and select a policy file (*.XML).
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting SAN Switching Issues
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