aliascreate, zonecreate are not creating anything

Question

the result of alicreate 'ESXI02_p1', '10:00:00:10:9b:33:81:81' is null this is on 8.0 as both Admin and Root. perform an alishow before the command run the alicreate perform an alishow after the command = no change   additionally run alicreate 'alias' 'wwn' run zonecreate 'alias' 'members' run cfgadd 'cfg' 'zonealias' run cfgsave 'cfg' run cfgenable - tells me the zone 'zonealias' doesn't exist In both Root and Admin do I have to 'switchdisable' first? I don't have that captured in any of my previous putty logs.

DELL-Sam L · Answer

Hello BlairTVD,

Here is a link to a KB that maybe of assistance. https://dell.to/3Zh1UyZ

Which connectrix switch do you have as you didn’t state that in your post? I am guessing that you are on version 8 FOS as you did state that.

BlairTVD · Answer

It is a 6505 running v8 FOS

And those instructions in the link are the instructions that result in 0 changes to the switch configuration.

Alicreate does not create aliases

zonecreate does not create zones

cfgadd does not add zones to the cfg

We have a ticket open and completed the round of diagnostics with the technician, now waiting for an engineer.

Something similar happened with a SAN-24B of a similar age but neither Broadcom nor IBM would commit to a diagnosis.

DELL-Sam L · Answer

Hello BlairTVD, I am glad that you opened a support case for this as that is what I was going to suggest next as it is strange that you can’t create alias using the steps provided.

Ed Schulte · Answer

Hi Blair, I'm trying to find the ticket, and see what progress is made and what the actual problem is. Can you PM me the SR number. thanks, Ed

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