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Newly added hosts in Cisco zoning does not appear in VMAX
We have a Cisco 9513 Director. Just now I added 2 new hosts to the existing Zone and Activated the configuration.
But when check in the VMAX these newly added hosts are not visible. I refreshed the SMC, logged out of the SMC and even waited for some time to see if the newly added hosts will be visible in the VMAX. But it is not appearing in VMAX FA ports.
please help
_Baadshah_
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April 11th, 2011 16:00
I guess it should work..but i do not have permissions to issue discover ..
_Baadshah_
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April 11th, 2011 16:00
is it equal to symcfg discover cli command, b'coz for some reason Discover option is showing as greyed out in SMC
MelbSteve
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April 11th, 2011 16:00
Hi,
Try the Symmetrix discover from SMC file menu.
Steve
MelbSteve
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April 11th, 2011 16:00
Yes.
dynamox
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April 11th, 2011 18:00
what OS ?
SAN_AK
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April 12th, 2011 00:00
Yeah if it is something like AIX or HP-UX hosts, you do not see the initiators logged into VMAX FAs..until you scan the bus..like cfgmgr for AIX.(I have seen this for me)..and may be ioscan for HP-UX(not sure)...
RRR
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April 12th, 2011 02:00
With UNIX alike OSs you need to initiate a new ioscan in order the storage array to actually see the wwpns ! So only zoning is not enough. After the zones are activated rescan please.
_Baadshah_
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April 12th, 2011 09:00
its ESX host.
I also tried discover on SMC but no luck.
Now i guess i need to run symcfg discover
dynamox
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April 12th, 2011 09:00
also have them reboot one of the ESX servers.
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April 12th, 2011 09:00
i don't trust GUIs ..if you know that zoning was completed correctly and active zoneset has been activated, run this:
symmask -sid list logins
see if your host WWNs is in the list
_Baadshah_
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April 12th, 2011 16:00
here is the catch..
we have two VSAN's and this perticular zone belong to both the VSAN's.
Initially i added new hosts to a Zone in one vsan and it did not reflected the hosts in the VMAX.
Later I added the hosts to the same zone in the second vsan then i was able to see the hosts logged in to the VMAX.
Thats it i'm happy and my user happy
SAN_AK
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April 12th, 2011 18:00
I am trying to know why the host is placed in two zones of the two VSANs..in the same fabric.
_Baadshah_
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April 13th, 2011 12:00
we have two vsan's out which one vsan is dedicated for Recover Point(Remote Replication) and other is dedicated for VMAX storage allocation.
we are not doing replication for all the hosts attached to the vmax. there are few hosts for which we are doing Replication using RP and these hosts are part of both the vsan's.