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Cisco Npiv and fport-channel trunk quetion
This might have already been answered.
But,
I have a UCS vBlock the switch has NPIV enabled and the FI on the UCS are NPV enabled. What I nned to do is enable another Cisco switch 9500 series outside the vBlock with NPIV and fport-channel to allow ports on the vBlock to connect to another VNX5600 array which is also outside the vBlock.
It should all be non-disruptive- I am hoping?
With everything within the UCS already NPV and NPIV enabled, I am thinking that all I have to do on the Cisco 9500 is:
config t
enabled NPIV - feature npiv
enabled fport-channeltrunk - feature fport-channel-trunk
create the port group
interface port-channel xx
channel mode active
switchport mode F
switchport rate-mode dedicated
Configure and add interfaces to port-group
interface fcx/xx
channel-group xx force
no shutdown
Add port-channel xx to vsan database
vsan database
vsan xxx interface port-channel xx
copy run start
Then configure UCS with a correct ports in a group.
Still working on this.
dynamox
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January 12th, 2018 14:00
yes, you will need to have matching VSANs on UCS. That also means you will need to configure additional UCS profiles, i can't remember if they are called vHBA templates ..so that specific blades will be connecting to specific VSANs.
dynamox
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January 12th, 2018 09:00
wouldn't you need to setup a different VSAN for the 9500 and UCS to force UCS blades to login to specific switch ?
Bing59
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January 12th, 2018 09:00
What I am thinking is, Partially "yes".
Not knowing the UCS side as well.
Current vsans on UCS are 100 and 110 to the MDS9148 vBlock switches using 4 ports on each FI in a group.
I believe I would have to configure a vsan on the UCS to match the current vsan on the MDS9500 (i.e. vsan 10), ensuring that 4 additional ports on UCS FI's are in that group.
Feel free to shoot holes in this.
Bing59
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January 18th, 2018 12:00
Yes, From what I am reading and being told by our VM/UCS Engineers you are correct.
Thanks for the feedback, concerning the connectivity from MDS to UCS.