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Zone virtual fibre channel using NPIV from an AIX VIO server on Cisco MDS switches?
There are a couple other posts regarding this. I haven't been able to find the details on setting up MDS switches for NPIV zoning.
I tried this already, and we have 2 AIX VIO server physical hba logged into the switches. The tech created the Virtual LPAR and created the vWWN's. I don't see the these vWWN's on my switches under FLOGI information or FCNS database. I do see the physical adapters logged into the port.
Just wondering what I'm missing, and how I can correlate one handshake to the next with NPIV. Could someone go through the settings for NPIV from AIX VIO on an MDS 9505? Where they verify that logins are happening/etc. ?
On the MDS we're at
BIOS: version 1.0.5
system: version 3.1(2)
Thanks,
Ron
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October 18th, 2010 07:00
i think the switch side is fine ...something needs to be tweaked in AIX
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October 18th, 2010 06:00
npv logins should be listed with "show flogi database" ..is NPIV enabled on the switch itself "show npiv status"
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October 18th, 2010 07:00
Thanks for the response Dynamox
I don't have that command on my MDS (tried it in config too). Maybe because I'm still at 3.1?
CISCO9509BOT# show npiv status
^
% invalid command detected at '^' marker.
But, I know that NPIV has been enabled (config t; npiv enable).
From show flogi database, 7/12 is the port that should show the virtual logins, but, I only see this;
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fc7/11 50 0x84000f 10:00:00:00:c9:7a:b7:cf 20:00:00:00:c9:7a:b7:cf
fc7/12 100 0x420048 10:00:00:00:c9:c0:b6:be 20:00:00:00:c9:c0:b6:be
fc7/13 50 0x840002 21:01:00:1b:32:3b:74:36 20:01:00:1b:32:3b:74:36
...
Any specific port settings? It doesn't mention requiring one, but, does the MDS need a reboot after setting NPIV?
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October 18th, 2010 07:00
Ok, Thanks. That's what I thought that it should look like under show flogi. So, we are missing that initial connect.
I do see the physical wwn. Is it possible the VIO server isn't "broadcasting" somehow?
CISCO9509BOT# show system internal feature-mgr feature state
Feature State Reason
-------------------- -------- --------------------
ivr enabled success
fcip disabled feature never enabled
fcsp disabled feature never enabled
ficon disabled feature never enabled
iscsi disabled feature never enabled
tacacs disabled feature never enabled
qos-manager disabled feature never enabled
port-security disabled feature never enabled
fabric-binding disabled feature never enabled
ike disabled feature never enabled
isns-server disabled feature never enabled
ipsec disabled feature never enabled
port_track disabled feature never enabled
scheduler disabled feature never enabled
npiv enabled success
san_ext_tuner disabled feature never enabled
dpvm disabled feature never enabled
extended_credit disabled feature never enabled
cloud-discovery disabled feature never enabled
sdv disabled feature never enabled
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October 18th, 2010 07:00
nah, not reboot is required. Can you run "show feature" ..is NPIV listed ?
While i am not doing NPIV with AIX ..we are using NPV with blades switches. So i suspect when you have it working it should look something like this where multiple WWNs are logged-in through the same physical interface.
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October 18th, 2010 12:00
That was correct. This is our initial run, and we had the LPAR in a inbetween state. It logged in with the physical wwn's, and then the virtuals were created, but, the host never rebooted/reset again.
After we reset it, it logged into the switch with all the wwn's.
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October 18th, 2010 12:00
good deal Ron. Interesting to test if you reboot just the LPAR itself ..i would hope that i would log back in and not require another physical server reboot/reset.