hello,

it's a new integration for the storage sc2020

I connected the storage properly by following the manual with tow san switchs cisco MDS 9148s 16G FC

when i initialized the storage i noticed that virtual ports does not exist

after the initialization has been finished I noticed that the virtual ports are disabled:

when i do this command in cisco switch

cisco-mds# show flogi database

i can see only the physical ports

fc1/1            1     0x540300  50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:05 50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:00  --->compellent port
fc1/3            1     0x540100  50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:07 50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:00  --->compellent port
fc1/5            1     0x540500  50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:12 50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:00  --->compellent port
fc1/7            1     0x540600  50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:14 50:00:d3:10:03:cb:10:00  --->compellent port
fc1/9            1     0x540400  10:00:00:10:9b:1b:00:ee 20:00:00:10:9b:1b:00:ee  --->server port

so the virtual ports does not exist to configure zoning.

any help please ??

Is NPIV enabled on the switch?

https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/storage-networking/enabling-npiv/td-p/1282172

Re: Enabling NPIV
You must globally enable NPIV for all VSANs on the MDS switch to allow the NPIV-enabled applications to use multiple N port identifiers.

Note All of the N port identifiers are allocated in the same VSAN

Enable NPIV mode on the NPV core switch:

switch(config)# npiv enable

switch (config)#

enabling NPIV on the core switch is non-disruptive. DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH ENABLING NPV MODE on a switch