How to settup zoning on a 2/8 Swith in an msa 1000

[Tv_3]

Hi, I'm a newby using MSA 1000.

I configured the fully rundant msa 1000.

I need to create zoning on the first 4 ports of each internal san swith.

How Can I do it?

Can I do it with the webtool or do i have to use the telnet session...

Can some say me how I need to configure this.

Thanks al lot!

[Jefferson Humber]

The MSA SAN Switch 2/8 manual reccomends the following guide (HP StorageWorks Zoning User Guide);

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/solutions/enterprise/ha/lpg29155.pdf

Do you have a zoning license ?

[Tv_3]

yes I have and it's installed.

[Tv_3]

I have a cluster connected to the MSA.

2 hba's in each server. HP MIO multipath installed.
2 HBA of a server connected each to one other SAN with.

Do I have to enable a zone on swith 1 and another zone to swith 2, each containing one of the two HBA's of each server cluster node?

Many thanks.

[Uwe Zessin]

Well, both switch should not be connected anyway. In that case, each switch has a completely different zoning database on its own. That makes it even more important that you save any changes with the 'configUpload' command.

What people usually do today is called 'host centric' zoning. It means you put each fibre channel adapter in its own zone, together with the storage systems it likes to access.

Don't worry - a single port can be in multiple zones at the same time. Even if the zones overlap, there will be no traffic between them.

How I usually do it:
- use the 'switchShow' command to obtain the port WWNs

- create an alias name for each WWN

> alicreate "aMSA1_C1","50:08:05:f3:00:04:ab:cd"
> alicreate "aSVR1_P1","10:00:00:00:c9:38:ab:cd"
> alicreate "aSVR2_P1","10:00:00:00:c9:38:de:de"
...

-- should a WWN change, e.g. due to an adapter replacement
-- I just change the alias name
> aliadd "aSVR1_P1","10:00:00:00:c9:38:fe:fe"
> aliremove "aSVR1_P1","10:00:00:00:c9:38:ab:cd"

- create the zones using the alias names

> zonecreate "zSVR1_P1__MSA1_C1","aSVR1_P1;aMSA1_C1"
...

- put the zones into a configuration and activate it

> cfgcreate "cRUN","zSVR1_P1__MSA1_C1"
> cfgadd "cRUN","zSVR2_P1__MSA1_C1"

> cfgsave
> cfgenable "cRUN"

(A 'configuration' is a predefined set of zones)

--
You can certainly try this for fun and/or education, but in this configuration you don't really need to set up zoning.

[generic_1]

If the MSA1000 has 2 fibers off of two controllers and it is active passive
id setup two seperate switches configs and plug controller a into both switches and controller b into both switches
Then plug server into each swtich.
zone each server port to see the two storage ports on each switch.
That way everything is redundant.

[Uwe Zessin]

Jeff,
a single MSA controller has only one (1) host port - you cannot plug it into
'both switches'.

[Tv_3]

Thanks Uwe,