Cisco Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch Troubleshooting Guide

Contents

Introduction

Requirements

Components Used

Problem

Host is not logging into fabric. Ethanalyzer was run and there is no VLAN REQUEST comingfrom the host.

Solution

The QLOGIC adapter was not configured for FCoE

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Introduction

This document describes how to configure a QLE8262 Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).

Requirements

Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics:

Fibre Channel over Ethernet

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Knowledge of the workstation and how to get console access to the workstation

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Components Used

This document is not restricted to specific software and hardware versions.

Problem

Host is not logging into fabric. Ethanalyzer was run and there is no VLAN
REQUEST coming from the host.

Example of correct flow:

2013-12-05 13:23:57.876499 00:00:c9:e6:88:2f -> 00:2a:6a:5e:7c:87 FIP

Keep-Alive
2013-12-05 13:23:57.956581 00:21:5e:e3:31:f5 -> 01:10:18:01:00:02 FIP
VLAN Request
2013-12-05 13:23:57.957731 00:2a:6a:5e:7c:87 -> 00:21:5e:e3:31:f5 FIP

VLAN Response
2013-12-05 13:23:57.957792 00:21:5e:e3:31:f5 -> 01:10:18:01:00:02 FIP

Solicitation
2013-12-05 13:23:57.959224 00:2a:6a:5e:7c:87 -> 00:21:5e:e3:31:f5 FIP