Zone virtual fibre channel using NPIV from an AIX VIO server on Cisco MDS switches?

npv logins should be listed with "show flogi database" ..is NPIV enabled on the switch itself "show npiv status"

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;

...

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?

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

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.

9134switchA# show flogi data
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INTERFACE        VSAN    FCID           PORT NAME               NODE NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
fc1/9            14    0x9a0300  50:00:09:72:08:22:29:1c 50:00:09:72:08:22:28:00
fc1/10           14    0x9a0400  50:00:09:72:08:22:29:18 50:00:09:72:08:22:28:00
fc1/11           14    0x9a0000  20:0a:00:0d:ec:ee:b4:c0 20:0e:00:0d:ec:ee:b4:c1
fc1/11           14    0x9a0001  50:01:43:80:06:2f:73:68 50:01:43:80:06:2f:73:69
fc1/11           14    0x9a0002  50:01:43:80:06:2f:61:fc 50:01:43:80:06:2f:61:fd
fc1/11           14    0x9a0004  50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:08 50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:09
fc1/11           14    0x9a0008  50:01:43:80:06:2f:44:cc 50:01:43:80:06:2f:44:cd
fc1/11           14    0x9a000f  50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:28 50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:29
fc1/11           14    0x9a0010  50:01:43:80:06:2f:61:f0 50:01:43:80:06:2f:61:f1
fc1/11           14    0x9a0017  50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:6c 50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:6d
fc1/12           14    0x9a0200  20:0a:00:0d:ec:f0:8b:40 20:0e:00:0d:ec:f0:8b:41
fc1/12           14    0x9a0201  50:01:43:80:04:26:ae:70 50:01:43:80:04:26:ae:71
fc1/12           14    0x9a0202  50:01:43:80:04:26:ad:48 50:01:43:80:04:26:ad:49
fc1/12           14    0x9a0204  50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:78 50:01:43:80:06:2f:62:79

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.

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.