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SAN256B-2
(2109-M48)
16 to 384-ports
1, 2, 4, 10Gbps
FC, FICON
Fabric Manager
EFCM
NEW
SAN64B-2
(2005-B64)
32 to 64-ports
1, 2, 4Gbps
FC, FICON
SAN140M
(2027-140)
4 to 140-ports
1, 2, 4, 10Gbps
FC, FICON
FC Routing, iSCSI
and Extension
Solutions
SAN18B-R (2005-R18)
256B FCR Blade (FC
#3450)
SAN32B-3
(2005-B5K)
16 to 32-ports
1, 2, 4Gbps FC
SAN16B-2
(2005-B16)
8 to 16-ports
1, 2, 4Gbps FC
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SAN256M
(2027-256)
32 to 256-ports
1, 2, 4, 10Gbps
FC, FICON
Feature
Description
8 Gbit/sec
Bandwidth
Dynamic Path
Selection
ISL Trunking
SAN Benefits
8 Gbit/sec
Link
Performanc
e
Dynamically balance
traffic across multiple
links and trunk
groups.
Improved Performance
8 Gbit/sec Inter-Switch Links
(ISLs)
8 Gbit/sec links to next-gen
devices
Up to 32 Gbit/sec ISL Trunks
Infrastructure
Simplification
Simpler SAN topology
Extended
Fabric
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Extend native FC
links up to 500 km.
Combine with ISL
Trunking up to
250 km.
SAN
Brocade Administration &
Troubleshooting
Feature
Description
SAN Benefits
Hardware
Enforced
Zoning
Fabric
Watch
Advanced
Performance
Monitoring
Advanced
Security
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SAN
SAN
SAN
Robust encryption,
authentication and
authorization SAN
policies
Feature
Description
SAN Benefits
Virtual SAN
Fabrics
SAN LPARS
Create HW logical
partition at card level
for independent
managed directors in a
single chassis
Spare
ports
Production
Test
Backup
FCIP
Tunneling
Extends FC links up to
1000s km over IP
network. FC and FCIP
Fast Write
FC Routing
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SAN
/IP
P
TC
SAN
Brocade Advanced
Features
FICON
Features
FeatureSpecificDescription
FICON/FC
Intermix
SAN Benefits
N-Port
Virtualization
(NPIV)
High Integrity
Fabrics
Binds Switches to
Fabric for increased
Security
zSerie
siSerie
s
pSeries
xSeries
z9
M48
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FICON in-band
management of
Directors from the
Mainframe
M48
M48
Improved distances/performance
for Metro Mirroring and Remote
Backup
z9
(FICON
Cascading)
FICON CUP
granularity.
In-band
M48
Management
Brocade Administration &
Troubleshooting
Brocade
BladeCenter
SAN Switch
Modules
Access Gateway
Native McDATA
Interoperability
Interoperability
End
Sale
McDATA/QLogi
c
FC Switch
Modules
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2008
2007
2006
Two technologies that seem to have come to the fore recently are
NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) and NPV (N_Port Virtualization).
NPIV
What NPIV does is allow a single physical N_Port to have multiple WWPNs,
and therefore multiple N_Port_IDs, associated with it. After the normal
FLOGI process, an NPIV-enabled physical N_Port can subsequently issue
additional commands to register more WWPNs and receive more
N_Port_IDs (one for each WWPN). The Fibre Channel switch must also
support NPIV, as the F_Port on the other end of the link would see
multiple WWPNs and multiple N_Port_IDs coming from the host and must
know how to handle this behavior.
N port identifier virtualization (NPIV) provides a means to assign multiple
FC IDs to a single N port. This feature allows multiple applications on the N
port to use different identifiers and allows access control, zoning, and port
security to be implemented at the application level. The following
figureshows an example application using NPIV.
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NPV
NPV introduces a new type of Fibre Channel port, the NP_Port. The NP_Port
connects to an F_Port and acts as a proxy for other N_Ports on the NPV-enabled
switch. Essentially, the NP_Port looks like an NPIV-enabled host to the F_Port on
the other end. An NPV-enabled switch will register additional WWPNs (and
receive additional N_Port_IDs) via NPIV on behalf of the N_Ports connected to it.
The physical N_Ports dont have any knowledge this is occurring and dont need
any support for it; its all handled by the NPV-enabled switch.
So why is this functionality useful? There is the immediate benefit of being
able to scale your Fibre Channel fabric without having to add domain IDs,
yes, but in what sorts of environments might this be particularly useful?
Consider a blade server environment, like an HP c7000 chassis, where there
are Fibre Channel switches in the back of the chassis. By using NPV on these
switches, you can add them to your fabric without having to assign a
domain ID to each and every one of them.
Benefits of NPIV
Without NPIV, its not possible because the N_Port on the physical host would
have only a single WWPN (and N_Port_ID). Any LUNs would have to be zoned and
presented to this single WWPN. Because all VMs would be sharing the same
WWPN on the one single physical N_Port, any LUNs zoned to this WWPN would be
visible to all VMs on that host because all VMs are using the same physical
N_Port, same WWPN, and same N_Port_ID.
With NPIV, the physical N_Port
Brocade
Administration
&
can
register additional
WWPNs (and N_Port_IDs).12
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Troubleshooting
Each VM can have its own WWPN. When you build SAN zones and present LUNs
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FC
Switch
FC
Switch
FC
Switch
SAN
FC
Switch
FC
Switch
FC
Switch
FC
Switch
SW
FC
Switch
Change
Modes
Brocade
Cisco
McData
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SAN16B-2
SAN16B-2
SAN16B-2
Change
Change
16B
16B from
from
Switch
Switch
mode
mode to
to
AG
AG mode
mode
SAN32B-3
SAN32B-3
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Customers SAN Admin group does not want an embedded switch in server
products (i.e. BladeCenter)
When NOT to use AG?
Connecting SAN targets (such as storage) directly to switch module
Environments where customers require switch features not supported by AG
ISL Trunking
Long Distance support greater than 10km (using Extended Fabric license)
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2006
2007
BROCADE AG
(BladeCenter)
256B Director
FOS 6.x
8Gbps blades
FCP and FICON
Native Interoperability (M-EOS)
256M Director
E/OS 9.6
NPIV
Security Ench
Interoperability
enhancements and
validation
E/OS 9.7
IPv6
Interoperability
enhancements and
validation
140M Director
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Interoperability
enhancements and
validation
E/OS 9.7
IPv6
Interoperability
enhancements and
validation
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2008-2011:
140M
256M
Edge
256B
Next Gen
Core
8Gb
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8Gb
Core
4Gb
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Networking Fundamentals
FC Topology
Fabric Scalability
Initiator/Target relationship
Switch Ports
FC definitions
ISL Concepts
Cable selection
Host Support
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Cascad
e
CoreEdge
Full
mesh
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Fabric or Network
Architectures
Types of architectures are:
Single-Switch
Cascade
Mesh
Core-Edge
Director
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Cascade
Maximum hop count supported is
three
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Mesh
Partial Mesh
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Core-Edge
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Fabric Scalability
Examples of Fabric Scalability
Scale performance by adding
ISLs or additional core
switches
Scale # ISLs
Scale fabric
size by adding
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switches
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Upgrade
Storage
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Upgrade
New
Firmware Storage
Brocade Administration &
Troubleshooting
Both
Switches
have New
Firmware
Storage
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Initiator/Target Relationship
HOST (Initiator)
Fabric/Network
Controller (Target)
Windows or UNIX
FC
driver
Application
SCSI over
Fibre Channel
FC
driver
iGroup
File
System
SCSI
driver
iSCSI
driver
iSCSI
driver
TCP/
IP
TCP/
IP
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WAFL
RAID
Data ONTA
Fibre Channel or
Serial ATA Attach
SCSI
LUN
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Switch Ports
E_Port - An expansion port connecting two switches to
make a fabric.
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U_Port
y/n
n
o
FL_Port
yes
y/n
yes
no
G_Port
F_Port
fabric
pt-to-pt
E_Port
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FC Definitions
Redundancy: When devices have two or more fabrics and multiple paths
for a source to reach its destination the fabric is considered to have
redundancy. This is critical so that when an initiator primary path fails, the
secondary initiator path will be available so that initiator hosts can still
communicate with their targets, at reduced performance.
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FC Definitions
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Rule of thumb: The higher the ISL oversubscription ratio, the lower
the performance and conversely, the lower the ISL
oversubscription ratio, the higher the expected I/O performance.
An ISL oversubscription ratio of 3:1 results in high performance
and fewer available ports while an ISL oversubscription ratio of
15:1 results in lower potential performance and additional
available ports reserved for devices. With the advent of 4Gbps
ISLs, higher oversubscription ratios can exist while maintaining
more than adequate bandwidth (since bandwidth is doubled per
Brocade
Administration
&
ISL) and higher device port
counts
for 2Gbps
devices.
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Troubleshooting
HBA
Emulex /
Qlogic
Emulex /
Native 4Gb
Native
Native
* (via PVR)
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Multipath
VERITAS DMP /
MPxIO*
HP PVLinks /
VERITAS DMP
SANpath /
MPIO
File System
MMC /
NTFS
VERITAS VxVM*
VERITAS VCS /
VERITAS
Native SUN Cluster* VxVM
VERITAS
VxFS
JFS/ HFS
MC ServiceGuard / LVM /
Raw
VERITAS VCS
VERITAS VxVMVERITAS VxFS
HACMP
LVM
QLogic
QLogic
QLogic
QLogic
QLogic
QLogic
Emulex
QLogic
VMware
ext3 / ext2 /
Reiser /
GFS*
ext3
ext2
Reiser
NSS
Novell Clusters
MSCS
VirtualCenter (VMotion)
JFS/2
Raw
VMware
VMFS 2.x
Raw
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Important Commands
Zoning (how to zone)
Zoning Best practices
Troubleshooting Procedure
Basic Troubleshooting
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switchshow
Displays status of the FC switch and all its ports
Show FC nodes currently logged into the switch (depends on
FC zones, if any)
cfgshow
Show zones currently available on the FC switch
Shows information about the current FC configuration and
which zone(s) are enabled
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Switch Zoning
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Naming convention
There typically of three types of devices, server HBA, the storage port, and
the tape port.
These will have an alias.
SRV for servers
STO for Storage
TPE for Tape
For example,
SRV_MAILPROD_SLT5 a server, hostname mailprod, in PCI slot 5
Keep names as small as possible to conserve space in zone database
Minimize duplication in alias definitions where possible
Keep zoning database as clean and accurate as possible
Fabric Name
Fabric name is the name that the fabric is generally known by.
PROD configuration is to easily identify the configuration that can be
implemented and provide the most generic services.
BACKUP_XX, TEST_XX may be used
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Host3
Host1
Host4
zone1
FC Fabric
zone2
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Zoning Ex.,
Step by step zone creation and activation
cfgactvshow |grep cfg - check the current activated zoneset or configuration
zonecreate "USCLSITPS002_S0ADCF1S2P8_HBA2_CX1571_SPA0",
"S0ADCF1S2P8_HBA2_PROD; S0ADCF1S2P8_HBA2_LPM; CX1571_SPA0" <-- To create zone
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Troubleshooting Ideas
Microsoft Word
Document
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Q&A
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THANK U
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