About Unique Area Fc Ids For Hbas; Configuring Unique Area Fc Ids For An Hba - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

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Configuring Domain Parameters

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To configure persistent FC IDs using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

Expand Fabricxx > VSANxx and then select Domain Manager in the Logical Domains pane for the

fabric and VSAN that you want to configure the Persistent FC ID list for.

You see the running configuration of the domain in the Information pane.

Select the Persistent FcIds tab and click Create Row.

You see the Create Persistent FC IDs dialog box shown in

Figure 25-10

Select the switch, WWN, and FC ID that you want to make persistent.

Set the Mask radio button to single or area.

Set the Assignment radio button to static or dynamic.

Click the Apply Changes icon to save these changes.

About Unique Area FC IDs for HBAs

Only read this section if the HBA port and the storage port are connected to the same switch.

Some HBA ports require a different area ID than storage ports when they are both connected to the same

switch. For example, if the storage port FC ID is 0x6f7704, the area for this port is 77. In this case, the

HBA port's area can be anything other than 77. The HBA port's FC ID must be manually configured to

be different from the storage port's FC ID.

Switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family facilitate this requirement with the FC ID persistence feature.

You can use this feature to preassign an FC ID with a different area to either the storage port or the HBA

port. The procedure in this example uses a switch domain of 111(6f hex). The HBA port connects to

interface fc1/9 and the storage port connects to interface fc 1/10 in the same switch.

To configure a different area ID for the HBA port using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x

Create Persistent FC IDs Dialog Box

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