Adapter - Dell Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Manual

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HBA problems
3. Possible cause: Required licenses not installed on the connected switch.
NOTE
The switch where the HBA or Fabric Adapter port configured in HBA mode connects must be running
Fabric OS 4.6.1 or greater.
Trunked port disables on the switch
One of the trunked ports gets persistently disabled on the switch.
Possible cause: Trunking is not enabled and configured on the adapter.
Action: Enable trunking on the adapter. Follow procedures in the Brocade Adapters Administrator's
Guide.
Cannot disable trunking
Cannot disable trunking.
Possible cause: Trunking is not disabled on switch and the adapter.
Action: Disable trunking following procedures in the Brocade Adapters Administrator's Guide.
Unable to create more than 126 Virtual (NPIV) ports for adapter
If you cannot configure more than 126 N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) ports (maximum is 255 for
Fibre Channel) refer to the following descriptions of possible causes and recommended actions to
help resolve the problem.
Possible Cause: The maximum NPIV limit for the connected switch has been reached.
Action: Execute the Fabric OS configure command on the attached switch and change the
maximum logins per port parameter under the F_Port login parameters menu to increase the
maximum NPIV IDs allowed per port.
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Action: Verify if licenses are installed by executing the Fabric OS licenseshow command on the
switch. Install licenses as required
Action: Install the following licenses on the switch if necessary.
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Server Application Optimization (SAO) license
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Trunking license
Brocade Adapters Troubleshooting Guide
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