jweinshe

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February 13th, 2013 08:00

Unable to get new ESXi 5.0u2 hosts to see all paths to NS480

A little background - Recently added 5 new ESXi hosts (all starting

auscerack) to cluster along with 2 new Cisco MDS 9148 FC switches to FC

network. Existing ESX hosts (all starting auscebld) are using existing

Brocade FC switches.

I have added 4 4GB FC connections from the CX4 to the MDS switches and

also zoned in the new ESXi hosts. However, the ESXi hosts are only

seeing connections to the storage on some of the HBAs / connections.

I suspected the issue is with zoning, but I've been over the setups

multiple times and have yet to find anything amiss.

Background:

All hosts (auscerack and auscebld) are running the same build of vSphere

(914586) and the auscerack servers have been updated with the latest

qlaXXXX driver (qla-2xxxx.934.5.4.0) with no change in situation. All

hosts (auscerack / auscebld) have PowerPath 5.7.0.2 installed and

licensed.

SAN is EMC NS480 (a CX4-480 with a Celerra gateway providing CIFS

storage outside scope of issue). 4 ports on block side of CX4 should be

visible to auscerack hosts:

Slot A3, Port 1 (SP-Port A-5) WWN:

50:06:01:60:C4:60:28:F2:50:06:01:65:44:60:28:F2 - shows 5 registered

initiators, all 5 logged OUT

Slot A3, Port 2 (SP-Port A-6) WWN:

50:06:01:60:C4:60:28:F2:50:06:01:66:44:60:28:F2 - shows 5 registered

initiators, 4 logged IN, 1 logged out

Slot B3, Port 1 (SP-Port B-5) WWN:

50:06:01:60:C4:60:28:F2:50:06:01:6D:44:60:28:F2 - shows 3 registered

initiators, all 3 logged out

Slot B3, Port 2 (SP-Port B-6) WWN:

50:06:01:60:C4:60:28:F2:50:06:01:6E:44:60:28:F2 - shows 6 registered

initiators, 5 logged in, 1 logged out

For auscerack1-1, Unisphere reports Connectivity Status as partially

active with 4 manually registered connections

20:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC:21:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC SP-Port A-5 not logged

in, registered

20:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC:21:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC SP-Port B-6 logged in,

registered

20:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC:21:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DD A-6 not logged in,

registered

20:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC:21:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DD B-5 not logged in,

registered

20:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC:21:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC corresponds to vmhba1 on

auscerack1-1

In vCenter, this HBA sees 1 target, 22 devices, 22 paths

20:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DC:21:00:00:24:FF:48:CF:DD corresponds to vmhba2 on

auscerack1-1

In vCenter, this HBA sees 0 targets, 0 devices, 0 paths

For auscerack1-2, Unisphere reports connectivity status as inactive with

4 manually registered connections

20:00:00:24:FF:48:D0:7E:21:00:00:24:FF:48:D0:7F B-5 not logged in,

registered

(no others show up)

20:00:00:24:FF:48:D0:7E:21:00:00:24:FF:48:D0:7E corresponds to vmhba1 on

auscerack1-2

In vCenter, this HBA shows 1 target, 1 device, 1 path

20:00:00:24:FF:48:D0:7E:21:00:00:24:FF:48:D0:7F

In vCenter, this HBA shows 1 target, 1 device, 1 path

all auscerack and auscebld ESX hosts are part of an EMC Storage Group

(ESX) so all should be able to see the same LUNs.

Parts of the MDS zone configs (2 switches)

9148-1

!Command: show running-config zone vsan 1

!Time: Tue Feb 12 13:22:31 2013

version 5.0(1a)

!Full Zone Database Section for vsan 1

fcalias name auscerack1-1-vmhba1 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:cf:dc

fcalias name auscerack1-2-vmhba1 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:d0:7e

fcalias name auscerack1-3-vmhba1 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:cf:de

fcalias name auscerack1-4-vmhba1 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:e4:16

fcalias name auscerack1-5-vmhba1 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:4f:76:ba

fcalias name NS480-Slot-A3-Port-1 vsan 1

member pwwn 50:06:01:65:44:60:28:f2

fcalias name NS480-Slot-B3-Port-2 vsan 1

member pwwn 50:06:01:6e:44:60:28:f2

zone name ZoneA vsan 1

zone name auscerack1-1-vmhba1 vsan 1

member fcalias auscerack1-1-vmhba1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-A3-Port-1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-B3-Port-2

zone name auscerack1-2-vmhba1 vsan 1

member fcalias auscerack1-2-vmhba1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-A3-Port-1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-B3-Port-2

zone name auscerack1-3-vmhba1 vsan 1

member fcalias auscerack1-3-vmhba1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-A3-Port-1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-B3-Port-2

zone name auscerack1-4-vmhba1 vsan 1

member fcalias auscerack1-4-vmhba1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-A3-Port-1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-B3-Port-2

zone name auscerack1-5-vmhba1 vsan 1

member fcalias auscerack1-5-vmhba1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-A3-Port-1

member fcalias NS480-Slot-B3-Port-2

zoneset name NS480-FABRIC-A vsan 1

member auscerack1-1-vmhba1

member auscerack1-2-vmhba1

member auscerack1-3-vmhba1

member auscerack1-4-vmhba1

member auscerack1-5-vmhba1

zoneset activate name NS480-FABRIC-A vsan 1

----

9148-2

!Command: show running-config zone vsan 1

!Time: Tue Feb 12 13:22:33 2013

version 5.0(1a)

!Full Zone Database Section for vsan 1

fcalias name auscerack1-1-vmhba2 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:cf:dd

fcalias name auscerack1-2-vmhba2 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:d0:7f

fcalias name auscerack1-3-vmhba2 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:cf:df

fcalias name auscerack1-4-vmhba2 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:48:e4:17

fcalias name auscerack1-5-vmhba2 vsan 1

member pwwn 21:00:00:24:ff:4f:76:bb

fcalias name NS480-Slot-A3-Port-2 vsan 1

member pwwn 50:06:01:66:44:60:28:f2

fcalias name NS480-Slot-B3-Port-1 vsan 1

member pwwn 50:06:01:6d:44:60:28:f2

zone name auscerack1-1-vmhba2 vsan 1

member fcalias auscerack1-1-vmhba2