Cisco SFS Product Family Chassis Manager User Guide, Release 2.10.0
Fibre Channel Tasks

Table Of Contents

Fibre Channel Tasks

Configuring Global ITL Attributes

Viewing and Managing SRP Hosts (Initiators)

Viewing SRP Hosts (Initiators)

Viewing SRP Host (Initiator) Properties

Viewing SRP Host (Initiator) World-Wide Port Names

Viewing IT Policies of the Host

Viewing ITL Policies of the Host

Adding a SRP Host

Deleting a SRP Host

Configuring SRP Host (Initiator) Properties

Configuring SRP Host (Initiator) World-Wide Port Name Properties

Viewing and Configuring Fibre Channel Targets

Viewing Fibre Channel Targets

Viewing Fibre Channel Target Properties

Configuring Fibre Channel Target Properties

Viewing IT Policies of the Target

Viewing ITL Policies of the Target

Viewing and Managing Fibre Channel LUNs

Viewing Fibre Channel LUNs

Viewing Fibre Channel LUN Properties

Configuring Fibre Channel LUN Properties

Viewing ITL Policies of the LUN

Viewing ITs and IT Properties

Viewing ITs

Viewing IT Properties

Viewing ITLs and ITL Properties

Viewing ITLs

Viewing ITL Properties

Viewing Global Statistics

Viewing and Managing VSANs

Viewing VSANs

Viewing VSANs Properties

Adding VSANs

Configuring VSANs

Deleting VSANs


Fibre Channel Tasks


This chapter describes the Chassis Manager Fibre Channel tasks and contains these sections:

Configuring Global ITL Attributes

Viewing and Managing SRP Hosts (Initiators)

Viewing and Configuring Fibre Channel Targets

Viewing and Managing Fibre Channel LUNs

Viewing ITs and IT Properties

Viewing ITLs and ITL Properties

Viewing Global Statistics

Viewing and Managing VSANs

Configuring Global ITL Attributes

Configure global initiator, target, LUN (ITL) attributes to select the attributes that apply by default to all new ITLs. For detailed information about these attributes, see the Fibre Channel Gateway User Guide.


Note If you change ITL attributes, the changes apply only to ITLs created after the change. Existing ITLs do not change.


To configure global attributes, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Global Policies branch.

The Global Policies display appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Configure host attributes as follows:

a. (Optional) Check the Restricted check box in the Gateway Port Access field to follow these steps:

Check the check box and deny all new initiators access to ports.

Uncheck the check box and grant all new initiators access to ports.

b. (Optional) Check the Restricted check box in the LUN Access field to follow these steps:

Check the check box and deny all new initiators access to LUNs.

Uncheck the check box and grant all new initiators access to LUNs.

Step 4 Configure random access device attributes as follows:

a. (Optional) Enter an integer value between 1 and 256 in the ITL HI Mark field.

b. (Optional) Enter an integer value between 1 and 100 in the ITL Max Retries field.

c. (Optional) Enter an integer value between 1 and 1800 in the ITL Min I/O Timeout field.

d. (Optional) In the ITL Dynamic Loading field, click one of the following:

The Path Affinity radio button to enable dynamic path affinity on all new ITLs.

The Gateway Port Load Balancing radio button to enable load balancing among all gateway ports on all new ITLs.

The Gateway Port Failover radio button to enable FC gateway port failover for all new ITLs.

Step 5 Configure sequential access device attributes as follows:

a. (Optional) Enter an integer value between 1 and 256 in the ITL HI Mark field.

b. (Optional) Enter an integer value between 1 and 100 in the ITL Max Retries field.

c. (Optional) Enter an integer value between 1 and 1800 in the ITL Min I/O Timeout field.

d. (Optional) In the ITL Dynamic Loading field, click one of the following:

The Path Affinity radio button to enable dynamic path affinity on all new ITLs.

The Gateway Port Load Balancing radio button to enable load balancing between Fibre Channel gateway ports on all new ITLs.

The Gateway Port Failover radio button to enable FC gateway port failover for all new ITLs.

Step 6 Click Apply.


Viewing and Managing SRP Hosts (Initiators)

These topics describe how to view and manage SRP hosts:

Viewing SRP Hosts (Initiators)

Viewing SRP Host (Initiator) Properties

Viewing SRP Host (Initiator) World-Wide Port Names

Viewing IT Policies of the Host

Viewing ITL Policies of the Host

Adding a SRP Host

Deleting a SRP Host

Configuring SRP Host (Initiator) Properties

Configuring SRP Host (Initiator) World-Wide Port Name Properties

Viewing SRP Hosts (Initiators)

To view the SRP hosts that connect to your device and your server switch, and function as Fibre Channel initiators, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table of SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame. Table 7-1 describes the fields in this table.

Table 7-1 SRP Hosts Table Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

Description

User-assigned text description of the SRP host.

SRP Initiator ID

Host GUID and GUID extension.

WWNN

World-wide node name (WWNN) of the SRP host.

Ports Registered With

Ports on your server switch that connect to the host.



Viewing SRP Host (Initiator) Properties

To view the properties of a SRP host, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the SRP host whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP Host Properties window opens. Table 7-2 describes the fields of this window.

Table 7-2 SRP Host Properties Window Fields 

Field
Description

SRP Initiator ID

Host GUID and GUID extension.

Ports Registered With

Ports on your server switch that connect to the host.

WWNN

World-wide node name (WWNN) of the SRP host.

Description

User-assigned text description of the SRP host.

PKeys

Partition keys of the SRP host.

Boot Target

WWPN of the target that contains the image that the SRP host uses to boot.

Boot LUN

LUN ID of the LUN that contains the image that the SRP host uses to boot.

Alternate Boot Target WWPN

World-wide port name (WWPN) of the alternate target port that the initiator can access through the virtual port.

Alternate Boot FC LUN

Logical unit number of the alternate target device.

Action

Provides a pull-down menu of actions thta you can perform on the host. Select an action, and then click Apply.

Result

Displays the result of the action that you performed with the pull-down menu in the Action field.



Viewing SRP Host (Initiator) World-Wide Port Names

To view the world-wide port names (WWPNs) of the virtual ports through which FC nodes communicate with SRP hosts, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the SRP host whose WWPNs you want to view.

Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show WWPNs.

A SRP Host Wwpns table appears in the View frame. Table 7-3 describes the fields in this table.

Table 7-3 SRP Host Wwpns Table Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

GUID

GUID of the SRP host.

Extension

GUID extension of the SRP host.

Slot/Port

Physical FC gateway port (in slot#/port# format) that passes traffic (addressed to the virtual port WWPN) to the SRP host.

WWPN

WWPN of the virtual FC port.

FC Address

FC address of the virtual FC port.

VSAN ID

Interger-value identifier of the VSAN configured to the FC port.



Viewing IT Policies of the Host

To view the details of the initiator-target (IT) pairs to which a host (initiator) belongs, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the SRP host whose ITs you want to view.

Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show IT Policies.

The Show IT display appears in the View frame but lists only ITs that include the initiator that you selected. For more information, see the "Viewing ITs and IT Properties" section or see Table 7-8.


Viewing ITL Policies of the Host

To view details of the initiator-target-LUN (ITL) groups to which a host (initiator) belongs, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the SRP host whose ITLs you want to view.

Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show ITL Policies.

The Show ITL display appears in the View frame, but lists only ITLs that include the initiator that you selected. For more information, seethe "Viewing ITLs and ITL Properties" section or see Table 7-10.


Adding a SRP Host

To add a SRP host to the configuration file, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

An SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click Add.

The Add SRP Host window opens.

Step 4 Enter the GUID of the new initiator in the Host GUID field.

Step 5 (Optional) Enter a description for the new initiator in the Description field.

Step 6 Click Apply.


Deleting a SRP Host

To delete an SRP host, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand the Fibre Channel icon in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the host that you want to delete from the configuration file, and then click Delete.


Configuring SRP Host (Initiator) Properties

To configure properties of a SRP host, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the SRP host whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP Host Properties window opens.

Step 4 (Optional) Enter a text description for the SRP host in the Description field.

Step 5 (Optional) Enter a partition key (or comma-separated keys) in the PKeys field.

Step 6 (Optional) Enter the world-wide port name (WWPN) of a target that holds a boot image in the Boot Target field.

Step 7 (Optional) Enter the LUN ID of a disk that holds a boot image in the Boot LUN field.

Step 8 Click Apply, and then click Close.


Configuring SRP Host (Initiator) World-Wide Port Name Properties

To configure properties of a SRP host WWPN, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A SRP Hosts table that includes all SRP hosts that connect to the Chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the SRP host whose WWPNs you want to view.

Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show WWPNs.

A SRP Host WWPNs table appears in the View frame.

Step 5 Click the radio button next to the SRP hosts WWPN.

Step 6 A SRP Host WWPN Properties table appears in the View frame.

Step 7 Click the radio button next to the SRP host WWPN, whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP Host WWPN Properties window opens.

Step 8 (Optional) Enter the VSAN ID of a FC port.

Step 9 Click Apply, and then click Close.


Viewing and Configuring Fibre Channel Targets

These topics describe how to view and configure Fibre Channel targets:

Viewing Fibre Channel Targets

Viewing Fibre Channel Target Properties

Configuring Fibre Channel Target Properties

Viewing IT Policies of the Target

Viewing ITL Policies of the Target

Viewing Fibre Channel Targets

To view the Fibre Channel targets in the configuration file of your server switch, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand the Fibre Channel icon in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Targets branch.

A Targets table that includes all targets in your configuration file appears in the View frame. Table 7-4 describes the fields in this table.

Table 7-4 Targets Table Field Descriptions

Field
Description

WWPN

World-wide port name (WWPN) of the port on the target through which your server switch accesses the target.

Description

User-assigned target description.

Note If no user has assigned a description, a default description appears.

Physical Access

Port on your server switch (in slot#card# format) through which your server switch accesses the target.

Connection Type

Displays nlport to indicate a virtual FC port or down to indicate a faulty connection.



Viewing Fibre Channel Target Properties

To view the properties of a Fibre Channel target, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Targets branch.

A Targets table that includes all targets in your configuration file appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the target whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP Target Properties window opens. Table 7-5 describes the fields in this window.

Table 7-5 SRP Target Properties Window Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

WWPN

World-wide port name (WWPN) of the port on the target through which your server switch accesses the target.

WWNN

World-wide node name (WWNN) of the target.

FC Address

Fibre Channel address of the target.

IOC GUID

InfiniBand I/O controller (IOC) through which initiators access the target. On the Cisco SFS 3012 and Cisco SFS 3001 platforms, the IOC identifies a Fibre Channel gateway slot.

Physical Access

Port on your server switch (in slot#/card# format) through which your server switch accesses the target.

MTU

Maximum transmission unit, in bytes, of the target.

Connection Type

The down and nlPort radio buttons assign a connection type to the target.

Description

User-assigned target description.

Note If no user has assigned a description, a default description appears.

Service Name

Name of the service to associate with the WWPN.

Active VSAN ID

Interger-value identifer of the active VSAN configured to the Fibre Channel.



Configuring Fibre Channel Target Properties

To configure the properties of a Fibre Channel target, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Targets branch.

A Targets table that includes all targets in your configuration file appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the target whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP Target Properties window opens.

Step 4 (Optional) Click either the down radio button or nlPort radio button to configure the connection type of the target.

Step 5 Click Apply, and then click Close.


Viewing IT Policies of the Target

To view the details of the initiator-target (IT) pairs to which a target belongs, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Targets branch.

A Targets table that includes all FC targets that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the target whose ITs you want to view.

Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show IT Policies.

The ITs display appears in the View frame, but lists only ITs that include the target that you selected. For more information, see the "Viewing ITs and IT Properties" section or see Table 7-8.


Viewing ITL Policies of the Target

To view the details of the initiator-target-LUN (ITL) groups to which a target belongs, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the SRP Hosts branch.

A Targets table that includes all FC targets that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the target whose ITLs you want to view.

Step 4 From the Show Options drop-down menu, choose Show ITL Policies.

The ITLs display appears in the View frame but lists only ITLs that include the target that you selected. For more information, see the "Viewing ITLs and ITL Properties" section or see Table 7-10.


Viewing and Managing Fibre Channel LUNs

These topics describe how to view and manager Fibre Channel LUNs:

Viewing Fibre Channel LUNs

Viewing Fibre Channel LUN Properties

Configuring Fibre Channel LUN Properties

Viewing ITL Policies of the LUN

Viewing Fibre Channel LUNs

To view the logical units (FC storage disks) in the configuration file of your server switch, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Logical Units branch.

A Logical Units table that includes all LUs in your configuration file appears in the View frame. Table 7-6 describes the fields in this table.

Table 7-6 Logical Units Table Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

Logical ID

Logical ID of the logical unit (disk).

Description

User-assigned logical unit description.

If no user has assigned a description, a default description appears.

Physical Access

Physical FC gateway ports through which your server switch accesses the LU.



Viewing Fibre Channel LUN Properties

To view Fibre Channel LUN properties, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Logical Units branch.

A Logical Units table that includes all LUs in your configuration file appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the LUN whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP LUN Properties window opens. Table 7-7 describes the fields in this window.

Table 7-7 SRP LUN Properties Window Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

Logical ID

Logical ID of the LUN.

Device Category

Provides the random radio button and sequential radio button to identify disk devices and tape devices respectively.

Inquiry Data

SCSI inquiry data retrieved about the LU.

Physical Access

Ports on your server switch that can access the LUN.

Description

User-assigned description of the LUN.

Hi Mark

The maximum number of outstanding requests from the initiator to the storage that the ITL can maintain.

Max Retry

Number of failed communication attempts that must occur before the LUN identifies the initiator as inaccessible.

Min IO Timeout

Maximum amount of time that elapses before a SRP request times out.

Size

Size of the LUN.

Dynamic Pathing

Provides the following radio buttons:

Path Affinity

This feature locks a storage connection to a path for the duration of data transfer to increase speed and efficiency.

Gateway Port Load Balancing

This feature distributes traffic evenly across both ports in an FC gateway card (when both of the ports can access the same storage).

Gateway Port Failover

This feature leaves one port on an FC gateway dormant so it can adopt the traffic of the other port (when both of the ports can access the same storage) if that port goes down.



Configuring Fibre Channel LUN Properties

To configure Fibre Channel LUN properties, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Logical Units branch.

A Logical Units table that includes all LUs in your configuration file appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the LUN whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP LUN Properties window opens.

Step 4 (Optional) Select the random or sequential radio button in the Device Category field.

Step 5 (Optional) Enter a description in the Description field.

Step 6 (Optional) Enter an integer value in the Hi Mark field.

Step 7 (Optional) Enter an integer value in the Max Retry field.

Step 8 (Optional) Enter an integer value in the Min IO Timeout field.

Step 9 (Optional) Click a radio button in the Dynamic Pathing field.

Step 10 Click Apply, and then click Close.


Viewing ITL Policies of the LUN

To view the details of the initiator-target-LUN (ITL) groups to which a LUN belongs, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Logical Units branch.

A Logical Units table that includes all FC targets that connect to the chassis appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the LUN whose ITLs you want to view.

Step 4 Select Show ITL Policies from the Show Options pull-down menu.

The ITLs display appears in the View frame but lists only ITLs that include the LUN that you selected. For more information, see the "Viewing ITLs and ITL Properties" section or see Table 7-10.


Viewing ITs and IT Properties

These topics describe how to view ITs and their properties:

Viewing ITs

Viewing IT Properties

Viewing ITs

To view Initiator-Target (IT) pairs on your server switch, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the ITs branch.

The ITs table appears in the View frame. Table 7-8 describes the fields in this table.

Table 7-8 ITs Table Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

SRP Initiator ID

GUID of the initiator (host).

Target WWPN

WWPN of the target.

Current Access

Physical FC gateway port through which the host currently accesses the target.

Physical Access

Physical FC gateway ports through which the host can access the target.



Viewing IT Properties

To view detailed Initiator-Target (IT) pair properties, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the ITs branch.

The ITs table appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the IT pair whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP IT Properties window opens. Table 7-9 describes the fields in this window.

Table 7-9 SRP IT Properties Window Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

SRP Initiator ID

GUID of the host.

Target WWPN

WWPN of the target.

Description

User-assigned description of the IT.

Current Access

Physical FC gateway port through which the host currently accesses the target.

Physical Access

Physical FC gateway ports through which the host can access the target.

Port Mask

Displays a check box for every FC gateway card and FC gateway port on the chassis. Ports with a checked check box grant the initiator access to the target.

Mode

The active radio button in this field represents the mode configuration. The Normal radio button configures the IT pair to function normally and the Test radio button configures the gateway to do ITL logins for this IT without the participation of the HBA of the initiator.

You cannot change the mode of an IT pair to test mode.

Action pull-down menu

Discovers ITLs that the initiator can form with the LUNs in the target.

Result

Displays the status of the action if you select Discover ITLs from the Action pull-down menu and then click Apply.



Viewing ITLs and ITL Properties

These topics describe how to view ITLs and their properties:

Viewing ITLs

Viewing ITL Properties

Viewing ITLs

To view Initiator-Target-LUN (ITL) properties, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the ITLs branch.

The ITLs table appears in the View frame. Table 7-10 describes the fields in this table.

Table 7-10 ITLs Table Field Descriptions

Field
Description

SRP Initiator ID

GUID of the initiator (host).

Target WWPN

WWPN of the target.

FC LUN ID

Fibre Channel ID of the disk or tape in the target. The ID of the first LUN is always 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00, and the IDs for subsequent LUNs increment by 1 in hexadecimal.

LUN Logical ID

Logical ID of the disk or tape in the target.



Viewing ITL Properties

To view detailed Initiator-Target-LUN (ITL) properties, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the ITLs branch.

The ITLs table appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the ITL whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The SRP ITL Properties window opens. Table 7-11 describes the fields in this window.

Table 7-11 SRP ITL Properties Window Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

SRP Initiator ID

GUID of the initiator (host).

Target WWPN

WWPN of the target.

FC LUN ID

Fibre Channel ID of the disk or tape in the target. The ID of the first LUN is always 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00, and the IDs for subsequent LUNs increment by 1 in hexadecimal notation.

LUN Logical ID

Logical ID of the disk or tape in the target.

Device Category

Identifies a LUN as random (a disk) or sequential (a tape).

Description

User-assigned text identifier of the ITL.

SRP LUN ID

SRP ID of the disk or tape in the target. The ID of the first LUN is always 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00, and the IDs for subsequent LUNs increment by 1 in hexadecimal notation.

Physical Access

Physical FC gateway port through which the host currently accesses the LUN.

Current Access

Physical FC gateway ports through which the host can access the LUN.

Port Mask

Displays a check box for every FC gateway card and FC gateway port on the chassis. Ports with a checked check box grant the initiator access to the LUN.



Viewing Global Statistics

To view global SRP statistics, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the Global Statistics branch.

The SRP Global Statistics display appears in the View frame. Table 7-12 describes the fields in this display.

Table 7-12 SRP Global Statistics Display Field Descriptions 

Field
Description

Link Events

Total number of link events (link up, link down) processed by the Fibre Channel interface gateways.

SRP Initiated IOs

Total number of I/O transactions requested by the SRP initiator.

SRP Commands Completed

Total number of SRP commands completed on the Fibre Channel interface gateways.

SRP Bytes Read

Total number of I/O bytes read by the SRP initiator that is connected to this chassis.

SRP Bytes Written

Total number of I/O bytes written by the SRP initiator.

SRP Connections

Total number of connections used by the SRP initiator.

SRP Commands Outstanding

Total number of SRP commands outstanding on the Fibre Channel interface gateways.

SRP Errors

Total number of SRP errors encountered on the Fibre Channel interface gateways.

FCP Initiated IOs

Total number of I/O responses by the Fibre Channel device to SRP initiator requests.

FCP Commands Completed

Total number of FCP commands completed on the Fibre Channel interface gateways.

FCP Bytes Read

Total number of I/O bytes read by the target device.

FCP Bytes Written

Total number of I/O bytes written by the target device.

FCP Commands Outstanding

Total number of FCP commands outstanding on the Fibre Channel interface gateways.

FCP Errors

Total number of FCP errors encountered on the Fibre Channel interface gateways.



Viewing and Managing VSANs

These topics describe how to view and manage bridge groups:

Viewing VSANs

Viewing VSANs Properties

Adding VSANs

Configuring VSANs

Deleting VSANs

Viewing VSANs

To view VSANs on your server switch, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the VSANs branch.

The VSANs table appears in the View frame. Table 7-13 lists and describes the fields in this display

Table 7-13 VSANs Field Descriptions

Field
Description

VSAN ID

Integer value of the VSAN assigned to the Fibre Channel.

The default value assigned to a VSAN is 1. While the user can assign any number from 1 to 4093, the default value is 4094.

Name

The name of the VSAN.

This is represented by the VSAN and a four digit string number which is the VSAN ID. For example, VSAN0001.

Admin Status

The administrative status of the VSAN.

Current Status

The current status of the VSAN.



Viewing VSANs Properties

To view the properties of the VSAN, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select VSANs branch.

The VSANs table appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the VSAN whose properties you want to view, and then click Properties.

The VSANs Properties window opens and displays the properties of the selected VSAN. Table 7-14 displays the fields in this window.

Table 7-14 VSANs Properties Field Descriptions

Field
Description

VSAN ID

Interger value of the VSAN assigned to a Fibre Channel.

Name

Displays the name of the VSAN.

Admin Status

The administrative status of the VSAN. The radio button displays the active or suspend state of a VSAN.

Current Status

Displays the current status of the VSAN.



Adding VSANs

To create a new VSAN, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select VSANs branch.

The VSANs table appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click Add.

The Add VSAN window appears.

Step 4 Enter the VSAN ID number in the ID field. Any digit from 1 to 4093 can be entered as the ID number.

Step 5 (Optional) Enter a name for the VSAN in the Name field.

Step 6 (Optional) In the Admin Status field, click the active or suspend radio button to activate or suspend the VSAN.

Step 7 Click Apply.


Configuring VSANs

To configure the properties of a VSAN, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the VSAN branch.

The VSAN table appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the VSAN whose properties you want to configure, and then click Properties.

The VSAN Properties window opens.

Step 4 (Optional) Enter a name for the VSAN in the Name field.

Step 5 Click active or suspend radio button to enable or disable a VSAN.

Active state indicates that the VSAN is configured and enabled. When a VSAN is enabled, the services of that VSAN are activated.

Suspend state indicates that the VSAN is configured but disabled. When a VSAN is disabled, you can deactivate the VSAN without losing its configuration.

Step 6 Click Apply.


Deleting VSANs

To delete a VSAN, follow these steps:


Step 1 Expand Fibre Channel in the Tree frame.

Step 2 Select the VSANs branch.

The VSANs table appears in the View frame.

Step 3 Click the radio button next to the VSAN that you want to delete, and click Delete.


Note You will not be asked for a confirmation after you click Delete. The VSAN is removed immediately.