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Old 01-05-2008, 11:14 AM
Greg Brown
 
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Default Re: Configuring IBM 5716 FC HBA's on a SAN (HDS USP100 & Cisco MDS9506)

On Feb 7, 9:47 am, "Greg Brown" <gregnbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am working with a customer to configure a IBM p-570 that has dual
> IBM 5716 (Emulex LP11000) cards connected to a Cisco director MDS9506
> to a Hitachi USP100. The director (Cisco 9506) can see the card which
> logs into the port in Fabric mode. I am able to create my alias and
> put that into a new zone with out any problems. The issue I am having
> is that the Hitachi can not discover the new WWN of the card I just
> zoned out for it. The port on the Hitachi is set correctly (Point-to-
> Point, Fabric Enable). I checked the ECN on the microcode CD to make
> sure that this HBA, OS version and Switch is all supported and it is.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Greg


I figured it out. The setting on the HBA's on the p570's were set to
AL (Arp-Loop). Had to go into smitty and change that. Also, on the
director I forced the port to be Fabric rather than FX. BTW, the
5716's are actually the Emulex LP10000 which are 2 GB cards. I had a
typo in my original posting.

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