Month: November 2014

How to configure your Cisco MDS fibre channel switch

2014-11-24

1- Create a VSAN

vsan database
 vsan 10 name SAN-TEST

2- Asign interfaces to VSAN

vsan 10 interface fc1/8

3- Create aliases

fcalias name SAN1_SPA_0 vsan 10
 member pwwn 50:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

fcalias name SRV1_HBA01 vsan 10
 member pwwn 21:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

4- Create Zone with aliases

zone name Z_SAN1_SPA_0_SRV1_HBA01 vsan 10
 member fcalias SAN1_SPA_0
 member fcalias SRV1_HBA01

5- Asign Zone to ZoneSet

zoneset name ZONESET_VSAN10 vsan 10
 member Z_SAN1_SPA_0_SRV1_HBA01

6- Apply and activate ZoneSet

zoneset activate name ZONESET_VSAN10 vsan 10

Troubleshooting

Example to view WWN and PWWN on MDS:

# sh flogi database
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 INTERFACE VSAN FCID PORT NAME NODE NAME
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 fc1/1 10 0x250000 50:06:01:61:08:xx:xx:xx 50:06:01:60:88:xx:xx:xx
 fc1/2 10 0x250100 50:06:01:69:08:xx:xx:xx 50:06:01:60:88:xx:xx:xx
 fc1/3 10 0x250400 21:00:00:24:ff:xx:xx:xx 20:00:00:24:ff:xx:xx:xx
 fc1/4 10 0x250300 21:00:00:24:ff:xx:xx:xx 20:00:00:24:ff:xx:xx:xx