Active System Manager Release 8.2 Installation Guide

• DCB needs to be enabled.

• VLT needs to be disabled.

• Switches have SSH connectivity enabled.

• FIP Snooping feature needs to be enabled on the MXL.

  conf
                                                        Feature fip-snooping
                                                     

• Port-channel member interfaces needs to have below configuration.

  interface range tengigabitethernet 0/33 – 36
                                                        port-channel-protocol lacp
                                                        port-channel 128 mode active
                                                        exit
                                                        protocol lldp
                                                        no advertise dcbx-tlv ets-reco
                                                        dcbx port-role auto-upstream
                                                        no shut
                                                        exit
                                                     

• Port-channel connecting S5000 switch needs to have following configuration.

  interface port-channel 128
                                                        portmode hybrid 
                                                        switchport
                                                        fip-snooping port-mode fcf
                                                        
                                                     

• Server facing ports needs to below configuration

  portmode hybrid
                                                        switchport
                                                        protocol lldp
                                                        dcbx port-role auto-downstream
                                                        no shut
                                                        exit
                                                     

Below configuration is prerequisite for S5000.

• Enable Fibre Channel capability and Full Fabric mode. Switches have SSH connectivity enabled.

  feature fc

• Enable FC ports connecting to Compellent storage array and FC ports connecting to other S5000 switch via ISL links.

  interface range fi 0/0 - 7
                                                        no shut
                                                     

• Create DCB Map

  dcb-map SAN_DCB_MAP
                                                        priority-group 0 bandwidth 60 pfc off
                                                        priority-group 1 bandwidth 40 pfc on
                                                        priority-pgid 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
                                                        exit
                                                     

• Create a FCoE VLAN

  interface vlan <VLAN ID> [Create VLAN for FCoE]
                                                        exit
                                                     

• Create FCoE Map

  fcoe-map default_full_fabric
                                                        fabric-id <FCoE VLAN ID> vlan <FCoE VLAN Id>
                                                        fc-map <FC MAP>
                                                        exit
                                                     

• Apply FCoE MAP to interface

  interface fibrechannel 0/0
                                                        fabric default_full_fabric
                                                        no shutdown
                                                     

  • NOTE: Below is the process of generating the FC MAP

  For generating the fc-map use below ruby code.

  Here VLAN ID is FCoE VLAN ID

  fc_map = vlanid.to_i.to_s(16).upcase[0..1]
                                                        fc_map.length == 1 ? fc_map = "0EFC0
                                                        #{fc_map
                                                        }" : fc_map =
                                                        "0EFC
                                                        #{fc_map
                                                        }"
                                                     

• Alias needs to be created having Compellent fault domain WWPN accessible on Brocade switch. Create a single alias including the virtual ports for the Compellent fault domain, WWPN accessible on Brocade switch. ASM automates the creation of each additional zone for the server objects and place them into a zone config.

• Brocade root password needs to be changed so that the banner presented to change the default password does not impact ASM's ability to ssh into the switch.

Nothing specific for ASM.