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About this document Introduction This guide details the concepts and implementation steps for integrating HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel modules and HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Modules into an existing SAN Fabric. The scenarios in this guide are simplistic while covering a range of typical building blocks to use when designing a solution. For more information on BladeSystem and Virtual Connect, see the HP website http://www.hp.com/go/blades/ About this document 6
Considerations and concepts Key takeaways The most important points to remember when using the Virtual Connect Fiber Chanel Module or the Virtual Connect FlexFabric module are: The HP VC-FC Module requires an HP Virtual Connect Ethernet Module to also be installed in order to be managed (it‘s not the case for HP VC FlexFabric). This is because the VC Ethernet module contains the processor on which the Virtual Connect Manager firmware runs. The lack of some special features that is available in standard FC switches like ISL Trunking, QoS, long-distance support, and so on, for the external links from VC-FC to the core switch. ISL Trunking, Port Channeling between a VC module and an upstream Fibre Channel switch are not supported because Virtual Connect Fibre Channel modules must be connected to a data center Fibre Channel switch that supports N_Port_ID virtualization (NPIV). The NPIV standard requires external ports to be N_Ports and not E_Ports or F_Ports required for trunking. NPIV support is required in the FC switches that connect to the HP VC-FC and HP FlexFabric Modules —an issue if the FC switches cannot be upgraded to latest firmware. Does not support direct storage attachment (requires at least one external FC switch) because VC uses an N-port uplink requires to be connected to a FC switch, it can be connected to data center Brocade, McData, Cisco, and Qlogic FC switches that support the NPIV protocol. Considerations and concepts 7
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first VC-FC module (Bay 5). 3. On t
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6. Then identically, create two VC
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2. Enter the following commands to
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The VC module uplink ports are phys
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12Vdc HP StorageWorks 4/32B SAN Swi
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Figure 18: FlexFabric Module port c
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Defining a new VC SAN Fabric via GU
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4. Select either Manual or Automati
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7. Two VC fabrics have been created
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Defining a new VC SAN Fabric via CL
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Scenario 6: Adding VC Fabric uplink
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a. For a Brocade SAN switch: Portsh
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3. The upstream SAN switch shows th
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2. Click Add Port, select the port
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Figure 26: Hot adding one uplink po
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2. Click on the Server connections
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Summary This scenario demonstrates
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2. Click the DPVM Setup icon. The D
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7. Select all VC-FC fabric devices
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Appendix A: Blade Server configurat
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Defining a Server Profile with FC C
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7. Assign the profile to a server b
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Appendix B: Blade Server configurat
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Defining a Server Profile with FCoE
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8. The server can now be powered on
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Appendix C: Brocade SAN switch NPIV
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3. To be sure that the port is enab
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Appendix D: Cisco MDS SAN switch NP
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6. Click the FLOGI tab. In the Port
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NPIV is enabled globally on the swi
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2. Click npiv. 3. In the Action col
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7. Click the FLOGI tab. In the Port
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7. To verify that NPIV is properly
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Appendix F: Static Login Distributi
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4. Select Static Login Distribution
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12. Click Name Server on the left s
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Or on the first FlexFabric module (
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2. In the same Interconnect Bay scr
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2. Click Name Server on the left si
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Testing the loss of uplink ports In
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2. VC Uplink port X1 port status be
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On the server side, the Boot from S
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Figure 29: Emulex showing Boot from
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Figure 32: Emulex showing Boot from
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Acronyms and abbreviations Term BIO
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Reference NPIV and Fibre Channel in
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