IBM Flex System V7000 Expansion Enclosure 4939H29 Manuel D’Utilisation

Draft Document for Review January 29, 2013 12:52 pm

IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide

When you have completed all zoning, click the ‘Close’ box to the right of the ‘Apply’ box to 
return to the main switch menu.

This process needs to be repeated for the second FC3171 8Gb SAN Switch in the chassis so 
as to allow for redundancy by using both fabrics in the chassis.

The above example has created a single zone which includes the initiator from the x240 
compute node and two targets, one from each of the storage node canisters. From a compute 
node host perspective it now has two paths through the FC switch to the IBM Flex System 
V7000 Storage Node. Repeating the process on the second IBM Flex System Enterprise 
Chassis FC switch, two more paths are included to the compute node for storage node 
access. With the compute node host operating system device drivers, it will now have the 
capability with multipathing to use the four paths available to it. This provides an 
enhancement for availability and storage performance to the host system on the compute 
node.

The IBM Flex System FC3171 8Gb SAN Switch used in the zoneset and zone creation 
example (section 11.5.3, “Zoning a Compute Node for Storage Allocation” on page 460) 
shows where it has the full functionality of an FC switch. It can connect to an external FC SAN 
fabric as shown in Figure 11-19 on page 459. The switch can also be configured into 
‘Transparent Mode’ where it will connect to an external FC SAN switch using F_Port-N_Port 
instead of E-Port-E-Port connectivity. From the external SAN and switches all zoning