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September 3rd, 2012 13:00

Converting Brocade to Access Gateway using NPIV

Hi

I have a Brocade switch (Blade switch Brocade IBM 5470) and I need to connect it to a ED-140M.

At this moment it's like this:

san_switch62:admin> switchshow

switchName:     san_switch62

switchType:     73.6

switchState:    Online

switchMode:     Native

switchRole:     Subordinate

switchDomain:   62

switchId:       fffc3e

switchWwn:      10:00:00:05:1e:dc:48:4a

zoning:         ON (B_CONFIG_20111022)

switchBeacon:   OFF

Area Port Media Speed State     Proto

=====================================

  0   0   id    4G   Online           F-Port  20:35:00:a0:b8:47:9d:66

  1   1   cu    N8   Online           F-Port  2 NPIV public

  2   2   cu    N8   Online           F-Port  2 NPIV public

  3   3   cu    AN   No_Sync

  4   4   cu    AN   No_Sync

  5   5   cu    N8   Online           F-Port  1 NPIV public

  6   6   cu    N8   Online           F-Port  2 NPIV public

  7   7   cu    AN   No_Sync

  8   8   cu    N8   Online           F-Port  2 NPIV public

  9   9   cu    N8   Online           F-Port  2 NPIV public

10  10   cu    AN   No_Sync

11  11   cu    AN   No_Sync

12  12   cu    AN   No_Sync

13  13   cu    AN   No_Sync

14  14   cu    8G   Online           F-Port  21:00:00:24:ff:31:51:e0

15  15   id    4G   No_Light

16  16   id    N4   Online           E-Port  10:00:00:05:1e:35:77:4e "san_switch11" (upstream)

17  17   id    N8   No_Light

18  18   id    N8   No_Light

19  19   id    N8   No_Light

I have 6 ports that are in NPIV mode.

When I convert it to access gateway mode, how can i make it to use npiv on the ports?

Last weekend i converted some blade switches from native to ag. But once this was done, the servers that were NPIV couldn't log into the fabric anymore. Only the ones that were not npiv could join the fabric.

Is there any special config?

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September 4th, 2012 03:00

Hi,

if you convert the blade switch to AG mode, it itself becomes a NPIV device and won't allow other NPIV devs to log in; that is the reason why you weren't able to connect NPIV devs to the blade switch.

Rgds

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