My apologies to XrAY as I was out a few days camping and only had email service on my phone and tried to email a response but I can see now it never made it. Not sure I can even post to this via email. Anyway moving forward.
I have not zoned the WWPN's as I can't see them in the SAN to zone them. Not sure if you wanted me to post everything from the lssyscfg command as there are around 20 LPARS on this managed system so I just included what I think you are looking for. Let me know if you want more.
---------- Post updated at 07:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:26 PM ----------
johnf,
I had looking at that zoning screen before but didn't try to select the cards. I have performed that step and I get the following output.
Code:
The selected adapter has been opened.
Zoning of attached disks may now be possible.
Press any key to close the adapter and return to the previous menu.
From the VIO Server side running the lsmap command it goes from
Code:
$ lsmap -vadapter vfchost15 -npiv
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost15 U8233.E8B.101A99P-V2-C64 5
Status:NOT_LOGGED_IN
FC name: FC loc code:
Ports logged in:0
Flags:1<NOT_MAPPED,NOT_CONNECTED>
VFC client name: VFC client DRC:
to
Code:
$ lsmap -vadapter vfchost15 -npiv
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost15 U8233.E8B.101A99P-V2-C64 5 SAPTEST FIRMWARE
Status:LOGGED_IN
FC name:fcs0 FC loc code:U78A0.001.DNWHN7Y-P1-C1-T1
Ports logged in:1
Flags:a<LOGGED_IN,STRIP_MERGE>
VFC client name:Virtual Fibre Channel - Firmware driverVFC client DRC:U8233.E8B.101A99P-V5-C4
After hitting enter on the SMS screen as it states I run the lsmap command on the VIO Server side again and it goes back to it's original state of not being connected. So yes it appears to be connected for a time but not sure what to do with it. I was still not able to see it in my SAN switch during any of this process.
My apologies to XrAY as I was out a few days camping and only had email service on my phone and tried to email a response but I can see now it never made it. Not sure I can even post to this via email. Anyway moving forward.
I have not zoned the WWPN's as I can't see them in the SAN to zone them. Not sure if you wanted me to post everything from the lssyscfg command as there are around 20 LPARS on this managed system so I just included what I think you are looking for. Let me know if you want more.
---------- Post updated at 07:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:26 PM ----------
johnf,
I had looking at that zoning screen before but didn't try to select the cards. I have performed that step and I get the following output.
Code:
The selected adapter has been opened.
Zoning of attached disks may now be possible.
Press any key to close the adapter and return to the previous menu.
From the VIO Server side running the lsmap command it goes from
Code:
$ lsmap -vadapter vfchost15 -npiv
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost15 U8233.E8B.101A99P-V2-C64 5
Status:NOT_LOGGED_IN
FC name: FC loc code:
Ports logged in:0
Flags:1<NOT_MAPPED,NOT_CONNECTED>
VFC client name: VFC client DRC:
to
Code:
$ lsmap -vadapter vfchost15 -npiv
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost15 U8233.E8B.101A99P-V2-C64 5 SAPTEST FIRMWARE
Status:LOGGED_IN
FC name:fcs0 FC loc code:U78A0.001.DNWHN7Y-P1-C1-T1
Ports logged in:1
Flags:a<LOGGED_IN,STRIP_MERGE>
VFC client name:Virtual Fibre Channel - Firmware driverVFC client DRC:U8233.E8B.101A99P-V5-C4
After hitting enter on the SMS screen as it states I run the lsmap command on the VIO Server side again and it goes back to it's original state of not being connected. So yes it appears to be connected for a time but not sure what to do with it. I was still not able to see it in my SAN switch during any of this process.
Thank you,
Justin
You need to check both VIO servers to make sure both virtual HBAs are connecting through the VIO servers. We can see from the item above in red that FCS0 is mapped to the VFChost which is coming up. Now you need to check which HBA the VFChost on the other VIO is mapped to. Then using this information check that the storage is zoned to the Physical WWNs and the Virtual WWNs on both adapters.
Are you booting the VIO servers from SAN or internal disk?
Then using this information check that the storage is zoned to the Physical WWNs and the Virtual WWNs on both adapters.
I have learned that it is not recommendet to zone the physical WWN from the NPIV-adapter.
Code:
I was still not able to see it in my SAN switch during any of this process.
We ran into the same problem as we have begun to setup our new virtual systems.
After some hot discussions with our SAN/Storage Group, they create the zones/mappings with the WWPNs which we are giving to them without seeing the ports logged in.
But after activating (opening) the adapter in the SMS menu, you should be able to see (one of) the WWPN on your switch - may it take some time till the switch refresh the list of logged in ports.
You can see the virtual wwpns on san switch when you you go to zoning from SMS menu and dont hit enter as it closes the port, the other way is just boot that vio client lpar from os cd and continue till it asks "press 1 to have english during install"
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