Reserved Vsan Range And Isolated Vsan Range Guidelines; Applying Zone Configurations To Vsan 1; Running Storage Applications On The Msm-18/4 - HP Cisco MDS 8/24c Release Note

Limitations and Restrictions
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
For configuration information, refer to the "Configuring Trunking" section in the Cisco MDS 9000
NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide.

Reserved VSAN Range and Isolated VSAN Range Guidelines

On an NPV switch with a trunking configuration on any interface, or on a regular switch where the
feature fport_channel_trunk command has been issued to enable the Trunking F PortChannels feature,
follow these configuration guidelines for reserved VSANs and the isolated VSAN:
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The following VSAN IDs are assigned in the Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS) interface
standard:
VF_ID Value
00h
001h ... EFFh
F00h ... FEEh
FEFh
FF0h ... FFEh
FFFh
FEFh = 4079

Applying Zone Configurations to VSAN 1

In the setup script, you can configure system default values for the default-zone to be permit or deny,
and you can configure default values for the zone distribution method and for the zone mode.
These default settings are applied when a new VSAN is created. However, the settings will not take effect
on VSAN 1, because it exists prior to running the setup script. Therefore, when you need those settings
for VSAN 1, you must explicitly issue the following commands:
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Running Storage Applications on the MSM-18/4

The Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module (MSM-18/4) does not support multiple, concurrent
storage applications. Only one application, such as SME or DMM, can run on the MSM-18/4 at a time.
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If trunk mode is on for any of the interfaces or NP PortChannel is up, the reserved VSANs are 3040
to 4078, and they are not available for user configuration.
The Exchange Virtual Fabric Protocol (EVFP) isolated VSAN is 4079, and it is not available for user
configuration.
zone default-zone permit vsan 1
zoneset distribute full vsan 1
zone mode enhanced vsan 1
Value Description
Do not use as a Virtual Fabric Identifier.
Available as a Virtual Fabric Identifier.
Reserved.
Control VF-ID (see Fibre Channel Link Services
(FC-LS) and Fibre Channel Switch Fabric
Generation 4 (FC-SW-4) standards).
Vendor specific.
Do not use as a Virtual Fabric Identifier.
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