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Unisphere and Unisphere Central 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Create a Fibre Channel Fault Domain

Create a Fibre Channel fault domain to group Fibre Channel ports for failover purposes.

Prerequisites

The Fibre Channel ports to add to the fault domain must be unconfigured. Ports that are already added to a fault domain or designated as back-end ports cannot be added to a new fault domain.

  • In virtual port mode, all Fibre Channel ports that are connected to the same Fibre Channel fabric should be added to the same fault domain.
  • In legacy mode, each pair of primary and reserved ports connected to the same Fibre Channel fabric should be added to a unique fault domain. The primary port should be located on a different controller than the secondary port.

About this task

NOTE Fibre Channel ports are always configured in Virtual Port Mode on SCv2000 and SCv3000 series storage systems. Legacy Mode is not supported.

Steps

  1. If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane of Unisphere Central.
  2. From the System iconSYSTEM menu, click Ports.
    The Ports view is displayed.
  3. Click the Front End Ports tab and select Fibre Channel.
  4. Click New icon(New) and select Create Fibre Channel Fault Domain.
    The Create Fault Domain dialog box opens.
  5. In the Name field, type a name for the fault domain.
  6. In the Ports table, select the Fibre Channel ports to add to the fault domain. All Fibre Channel ports in the fault domain should be connected to the same Fibre Channel fabric
  7. Click OK.

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