That means you must have completely identical aliases, zones and configs on switch a and switch b. Use the brocade web interface on the target fabric switch to monitor to the merge. May 15, 2016 step by step configuration of san switch. A metasan is a collection of san devices, switches, edge fabrics, logical storage area. A newbie question on isl with brocade switches hi david, reading the article you pointed to, when we merge cisco and brocade switches via the interop mode 3 isl, all zoning operations should be done on the cisco mds switch side using the nxos commands.
Brocade is very specific on how zoning should be configured for two fabrics to merge. Data center brocade switch cookbook 7 of 197 for more fec please refer to fabric os adminstrators guide. Brocade fabric watch network hardware pdf manual download. Jun 17, 20 logical switch 1 and 5 will form the default fabric. The xisl will take care of the trunking of the fabrics on either sides. The new switch will download the zoning config automatically and be good to go. Lastly, the base switches will form fabric 8, but this is a special xisl only fabric. Fabric os message reference 531003802 updated for fabric os v6. Trunking is automatically implemented for any eligible isls after you install the brocade isl trunking license. In either case, the storage is physically decoupled from the hosts. Figure 1 shows the two combined power supply and fan assemb lies in the brocade 5100 and 7800.
All switches within the same fabric must have unique ids. Brocade campus fabric technology, offered for brocade icx 7250, 7450, and 7750 switches, extends network options and scalability. Modified a message to bladded new messages to ag, bl, and fcoe. This should be enough to disable zoning on the whole fabric, if not then disable zoning on every switch in the fabric that is to be merged. Adding a new switch to a existing fabric dell community. Brocade 3850 fabric switch product library documentation. Fabric os troubleshooting and diagnostics guide, 7. I am assuming you have a redundant fabric right now. Brocade 12000 fabric switch product library documentation. Use the domain id to identify on which switch you need to verify the domain priority. Maps extended features are available only with license. Then you need to make sure both switches have different domain ids brocade. This powerful diagnostic uses a data capture application and a backend report processing engine. There are about 7 switches in each fabric on each side of various types, most are director class switches.
Brocade products tab to locate your product, then click the brocade product name or image to open the individual product page. A standalone switch declares itself the principal switch 2. You could use the admin guide and command ref manual as a. There are at least nine different scenarios, but well touch only on three most common ones. Brocade fabric operating system firmware release notes, 5. Make sure also that the existing two switches have unique ids. I want to have the procedures, the risks, the best practices. It is not a switch hardware issue but no fabric license order. Please confirm that we can merge all 3 switches together as connected below without any lost and impact on existing merged configuration. Customers can easily store spares, manage inventory, and evolve the network architecture as needs grow. The dell services team delivers distinctive capabilities, including brocade global services, worldclass professional services, technical support and education for designing, implementing and managing highperformance, resilient network infrastructures. Hewlett packard enterprise support center hpe support center. Best practices on the world of interopmode isl dell emc. The new switch switchdomain is going to be changed from existing 1 to 3 before connecting it to the merged pair of switches 4.
It integrates premium brocade icx 7750, midrange brocade icx 7450, and entrylevel brocade icx 7250 switches, collapsing network access, aggregation, and core layers into a single logical switch. Zone merge fail to connect to brocade siwtch i try to connect mds9509 to brocade 24000. View and download brocade communications systems a7533a brocade 4gb san switch base administrators manual online. Adding two addtional san switches to the fabric it answers. Cisco mds 9000 family switchtoswitch interoperability. Under this scenario you will have to recreate the same configs on both fabrics. The brocade 6510 fibre channel switch can be deployed as a full fabric switch or as a brocade access gateway, which simplifies fabric topologies and heterogeneous fabric connectivity the default mode setting is a switch. Also, you are not using switch connection control, scc, which can be used to restrict switches from joining the fabric.
Running on the connectrix pb48k18i blade and emc select 7500 switch, fc routing enables devices located on separate san fabrics to communicate without the need to merge the fabrics into a large san environment. If you want to get more details, refer to the brocade fabric os administrators guide and specifically the section called zone merging scenarios. Products named in the compatibility tables reflect equipment tested at brocade or tested externally. For the new sw, while you first connect the hosts, check the hosts hba driver and fw with brocade compatibility matrix, create a config file with cfgcreate to do the first time zoning for merging of the sws, do the above activities but set the fabric. Hello experts, we have a san fabric with a brocade 6520 switch. A customer with an existing setup from hp with hpbranded brocade switches wanted to connect those switches to the newly acquired ibm setup also using brocade switches. This is the most straightforward scenario when you are adding a brand new switch a to an existing fabric. Sun partner brocade silkworm 3900 core fabric switch guide to documentation, 4. Switch a and switch b have different defined configurations. Interoperability mode behavior summary by switch type 16 fabric interoperability. Brocade extended fabrics highlights provides switched fabric connectivity over longer distances up to 500 kilometers extends all of the scalability, reliability, and performance benefits of fibre channel sans. If a fan assembly fails, leave it in the switch until it can be. This service is implemented on the router as an ex port. Added new chapters for audit cnm, audit cvlm, and audit spm.
The user manuals are available in the resources module at the bottom of the. Reliable commit service rcs protocol supports mds interoperability with other vendor switches. How to configure zone on brocade fiber switch by port number duration. To enable the full functionality of maps, you must first install and activate the fabric vision license. Brocade fibre channel routing fcr technology overview. The task is merging 2 running fabrics, both fabrics have effective configurations. The zoning databases will merge and the switches will synchronize. Brocade storage networking solution grigory nikonov san systems engineer. Cisco mds fabric merge and switch add prerequisites. The 2 brocade san switch have differents zone config we want to configure 2 new san switch and merge them with the 2 san switch already in production. Brocade new switch and merging of switch in to the existing. This is a generic case of adding a new brocade switch just deboxed to an all brocade fabric with all fairlynew foss.
E, f, m, d, ex ports scalability full fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches certified maximum 6000 active nodes. After i set mds 9509 to interop mode 3 and disable the vc of brocade switch, brocade switch can see 9509 in topology show and fabric show. Brocade fibre channel routing dell emc education service. November 2009 fabric os message reference 53100176701 updated for fabric os v6. A7533a brocade 4gb san switch base switch pdf manual download. Using fosexec to run commands on remote switches or domains. Switch priority determines who becomes the principal switch 5. After capturing switch diagnostic data, it automatically generates a visio topology diagram and a detailed report of san fabrics, switches, and individual ports. Brocade fibre channel networking community view only. As a result of the merge configuration from the switch b propagates to the switch a. Only isl ports can be configured in the base switches.
This means that you are not using brocade virtual fabrics not all brocade switches support the feature. Add at least one more isl no steps required just plug them in if both of your switches have active zoning configs then use brocade fabric manager they have a fabric. The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of fabric os. This allows the creation of logical storage area networks lsan that provide connectivity that can span fabrics without actually merging the fabrics.
The hardware, software compatibility list hscl dictates that for a brocade in this example the minimum version of firmware for proxy principal switch is 5. San management module 6 merging fibre channel fabrics. Brocade extended fabrics is an optional licensed feature for brocade san switches and directors, enabling organizations to leverage the increased availability of dark fiber and dwdm equipment in major metropolitan areas. Cisco zone migrator does not support domainbased or portbased zone conversion. These agreements are based on the end user using brocade software as it was originally intended. Fibre channel zoning basics fibre channel industry association. The primary difference between legacy switch interop mode 3 and legacy switch interop mode 2 is how the brocade switch sets the core pid. Organizations can create a 120 gbe brocade isl trunk by utilizing three 40 gbe ports or 12 10 gbe ports between brocade vdx 6940 switches. The hp switches are the 24port 8 gb switches, and the ibm ones are 48port 16 gb switches.
Brocade 5300 brocade 8gb san switch module 44x1920 brocade 1007 cna for system x bladecenter ibm 81y1650 security fc extension. Hi, we have a fabric a with 2 switches domain id 23. Merging fabrics based on cseries and bseries fibre channel switches application notes. Am866a is a storageworks 88 base san switch which without fabric license in order to have two fabrics merge direct connect or via fcip, the fc switches edge switches must have fabric licenses.
Brocade principal switch domain id setup hewlett packard. If any zone member types are unknown in the brocade configuration, please change them manually before taking the cfgshow output. A switch by default is the principal because it happened to have the lower wwn at the time of introducing the switches into a fabric. The brocade isl trunk is automatically formed between. If a brocade fabric has switches with more than 16 ports, the core pid will be set to 1. We will migrated did 23 and 25 into a new 48000 switch and will decommission did 23 and 25. The brocade fcfc routing service fcrs provides connectivity between two or more fabrics without the need to merge the fabrics. We can now expand brocade san fabrics without merging fabrics.
This is the easiest path and is what brocade calls a clean merge. Connect the switch, it joins the fabric and the zone config uploads to it. See the configuration section for more information on setting up an mds 9000 switch and a brocade switch for interoperability without having to change the brocade switch from its native interoperability mode. I was reading brocade s forums and many were talking about using fabric merge tools and that the two fabrics must have different names, and there was a lot of wrong or outdated information that no longer applies to the new fabric os 7. Adding brocade switch to preexisting fabric hewlett. Yes, you will need to set a unique domain id and as a best practice set the insistent domain id flag. Merging fabrics based on cseries and bseries fibre channel switches fifth edition april 2006 part number. Interoperability mode behavior summary by switch type. Logical switch 1 and 5 will form the default fabric. The book provides the reader with all of the techniques necessary to integrate fibrebased switches with an ipbased network. Building sans with brocade fibre channel fabric switches is written for system administrators who are designing, building, and maintaining storage area networks with brocade fibre switches. Apr 20, 2016 in the output of the above command, you can easily identify which switch is the principal switch for each vsan. I feel comfortable in that all switches in each fabric have unique dids.
Brocade virtual fabrics part 2 configuring the logical. The san may use fiber channel or ethernet iscsi to provide connectivity between hosts and storage. The most effective configuration for implementing extended. San switch basic concepts san environment provides blockoriented io between the computer systems and the target disk systems. Highly reliable and scalable, brocade fibre channel directors and switches deliver highperformance connectivity, while enabling low tco and fast roi. Jan 16, 2016 i was reading brocade s forums and many were talking about using fabric merge tools and that the two fabrics must have different names, and there was a lot of wrong or outdated information that no longer applies to the new fabric os 7. Refer to the hardware reference manual of your specific switch for isl connection and cable management. Brocade access gateway mode the brocade 300 can be deployed as a full fabric switch or as a brocade access gateway, which provides connectivity into any san the default mode setting is a switch. Target path fabric os fos target path selection guide 1 overview this document provides guidance for selecting an ideal brocade fabric os brocade fos code version for use on brocade fibre channel fc switch platforms and also for selecting optimum versions of code to use when migrating from one version of brocade fos to another. Dec 21, 2005 assuming you have hp branded brocade switches, consult their design guide. If both switches are online, a principal switch selection occurs.
The brocade 5000 switch the brocade 5000 switch is a 32port autosensing 421 gbitsec fibre channel switch that includes advanced interoperability capability for mcdata fabrics, enhanced operating efficiency and optimized system design. Brocade fibre channel routing fcr technology overview and. A newbie question on isl with brocade switches cisco. View and download brocade communications systems brocade fabric watch user manual online. Brocade new switch and merging of switch in to the. Sun partner brocade silkworm 3250, 3850, and 3900 switches and 12000 and 24000 directors release notes, 4.
If switch priority is the same, lowest wwn determines who becomes the principal switch. Nov 14, 2011 i am often asked to setup a stack with the fcx648shpoe brocade switches. In a brocade vcs fabric, brocade vdx 6940 switches also help maximize network utilization with hardwarebased brocade isl trunking. Connect the stacking cables in the back appropriately up on first switch to down on the second switch, and vice versa for controller redundancy.
The following is a summary of interoperability mode behavior on cseries switches. Then do the necessary steps on the switches to make the switches correctly merge. Brocade switch isl links solutions experts exchange. Elementname property is set correctly in the corresponding instance only if the seed switch is running on a fabric os v6. The new switches should be assigned unique domain ids. Mds switch joins a fabric with brocade switches that are restricted in this manner, additional domain. How to configure a stack on a brocade foundry fcx648shpoe. The trunking feature optimizes the use of bandwidth by allowing a group of inter switch links isls to merge into a single logical link. Transforming the network with brocade campus fabric white. Sun partner brocade silkworm 3200, 3800, and 12000 core fabric switches guide to documentation, 3. Switch a and switch b have the same defined and effective configuration. How to change a brocade switch to be the new principal switch. How to merge 4 brocade 300 san switch solutions experts.
Brocade fabric os troubleshooting and diagnostics guide, 8. Instead of booting up regular, it should boot up and join the fabric, bypassing the principle election. When you install and activate a fabric vision license, you can use all of maps functions. Ensure that the brocade fabric switch is running brocade fabric os v7. If you want to get more details, refer to the brocade fabric os administrators guide and. Assuming you have hp branded brocade switches, consult their design guide. Adding brocade switch to preexisting fabric what i have done to a new brocade fc switch. The brocade 6505 can be deployed as a full fabric switch or as a brocade access gateway, which simplifies fabric topologies and heterogeneous fabric connectivity the default mode setting is a switch.
Products named in the compatibility tables reflect equipment tested at brocade. Customers can also use the same devices in multiple deployment scenarios, use devices as standalone switches, and use devices in a stack or as part of a brocade campus fabric. Ids are added to the fabric, and fabric merging is prevented. How to configuration isl to existing switch brocade. Brocade enduser license agreement fabric os, feature licenses and license keys brocade provides end users with software and software licenses with the understanding that they agree to applicable enduser license agreements. Brocade access gateway administrators guide supporting fabric os v5. These provide device connectivity between fabrics without merging the fabrics. San fabric administration best practices guide broadcom. Brocade 3900 fabric switch product library documentation.
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