Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 Installation Guide

• DCB needs to be enabled.

• VLT needs to be disabled.

• FIP Snooping feature needs to be enabled on the MXL.

  conf
                                                        Feature fip-snooping
                                                     

• Port-channel member interfaces needs to have below configuration.

  interface range tengigabitethernet 0/33 – 36
                                                        port-channel-protocol lacp
                                                        port-channel 128 mode active
                                                        exit
                                                        
                                                        protocol lldp
                                                        no advertise dcbx-tlv ets-reco
                                                        dcbx port-role auto-upstream
                                                        no shut
                                                        exit
                                                     

• Port-channel connecting Cisco Nexus switch needs to have following configuration.

  interface port-channel 128
                                                        portmode hybrid
                                                        switchport
                                                        fip-snooping port-mode fcf
                                                        
                                                     

• Server facing ports needs to have following configuration.

  portmode hybrid
                                                        switchport
                                                        protocol lldp
                                                        dcbx port-role auto-downstream
                                                        no shut
                                                        exit
                                                     

Following is the prerequisite for Cisco Nexus.

• Enable required features.

  feature fcoe
                                                        feature npiv
                                                        feature lacp
                                                     

• Create a new VSAN - instantiate it in the VSAN database.

  conf
                                                        vsan database
                                                        vsan <vsan id>
                                                     

• Configure regular ethernet VLANs, and then the FCoE VLAN is created with an assignment to its respective VSAN.

  vlan <fcoe vlan>
                                                        fcoe vsan <vsan>
                                                     

• Instantiate but do not configure the upstream port-channel (LAG) to the core /aggregation switch.

• Instantiate but do not configure the downstream port-channel (LAG) to the IOA4.

• Create the VFC interface to bind to the servers CNA FIP MAC address. This can be located in the CMC WWN table or the IDRAC page for the server.

  Example

  interface vfc101
                                                        bind mac-address 5C:F9:DD:16:EF:07
                                                        no shutdown
                                                        
                                                        interface vfc102
                                                        bind mac-address 5C:F9:DD:16:EF:21
                                                        no shutdown
                                                     

• Move back into the VSAN database and create entries for the new VFC just created and create entries for the FC port(s) that will be used.

  vsan database

  vsan 2 interface vfc101

  vsan 2 interface vfc102

  vsan 2 interface fc2/1

  vsan 2 interface fc2/2

  • NOTE: All the Compellent ports needs to part of the same VSAN.

Create fault domain as per Compellent best practices.