Chapter 5 - Configuring Northbound Switches for Fibre Channel and iSCSI Operations
90
7700 Flash Storage Platform Installation Guide 7.6.3.x
530-0267-00 Rev 02
Configuring FC Ports in the FC Switches
This section addresses the use of Fibre Channel ports in a northbound configuration, in which you
need to create a 1-to-1 zone between every FC host initiator and 7700 FSP Controller target to
which you plan to connect. NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) must be enabled and functional on all
Fibre Channel switch ports that are directly attached to the 7000 Series FSP. Use the
“
portcfgshow
” and “
switchshow
” commands to verify.
Note:
NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) must be enabled and functional on all Fibre Channel switch
ports that are directly attached to a 7000 Series FSP. To verify, use the
portcfgshow
and
switchshow
commands CLI commands.
Note:
To prevent HA failover issues, you must configure the 7700 Flash Storage Platform so that
the four southbound Fibre Channel ports are set to Initiator mode and the four northbound Fibre
Channel ports are set to Dual mode.
Note:
Each interface in an HA pair must be assigned a unique IP address for failover to work
correctly (and these IP addresses are not in use for connectivity).
Configuring the 7700 FSP Controller Target and
Initiator Ports
For Fibre Channel failover, select the initiator on the secondary 7700 FSP Controller that will
function as a standby for every target port on the primary 7700 FSP Controller (as shown in the
examples in the following table).
Controller A/B
HBA Slot and Ports
Client Target WWPN
(Primary)
Client Initiator
WWPN (Secondary)
7700 FSP Controller A
HBA Slot 2: Ports 107-106
Port 107 connects to Port 5 on
client FC-A switch
Port 106 connects to Port 5 on
client FC-B switch
7700 FSP Controller A
HBA Slot7: Ports 102-103
Port 102 connects to Port 4 on
client FC-A switch
Port 103 connects to Port 4 on
client FC-B switch
7700 FSP Controller B
HBA Slot 2: Ports 107-106
Port 107 connects to Port 7 on
client FC-A switch
Port 106 connects to Port 7 on
client FC-B switch
7700 FSP Controller B
HBA Slot 7: Ports 102-103
Port 102 connects to Port 6 on
client FC-A switch
Port 103 connects to Port 6
client FC-B switch
Table 5.1 Fibre Channel Failover Between 7700 FSP Controllers
