On switch 2, I connected port 0 to SPA Port 1 and port 8 to SPB Port 1. I cabled port 0 on Switch 1 to EMC SPA Port 0 and port 8 on switch 1 to EMC SPB port 0.
As such, I logically divided each Brocade Silkworm into two halves: ports 0-7 going to EMC CLARiiON Service Processor A and ports 8-15 going to EMC CLARiiON Service Processor B. The CLARiiON has (4) ports, (2) per service processor, and I will be running one storage system in this demo environment.
Each Brocade Silkworm has (16) active ports. I will save the infrastructure / wiring advice for another article, but I generally adhered to industry best practices for wiring and zoning. (When we wired our new office, we wanted to future proof a bit which was taken from my budget of buying more modern demo equipment!) For cabling, I used our office's drastically overkill 10Gb capable OM3 fibre optic cable. 2Gb Finisar SFPs (Small Form Pluggables) inside the Q-Logic HBA and Brocade Router are being used. For storage, I chose to setup an older EMC CX300 CLARiiON with two storage processors (SPA and SPB) which was an off-lease return from one of our customers. I found several dual-ported Q-Logic QLA2342 PCI-X HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) lying around. In fact, they are still quite feature rich with iSCSI and FC protocol mixing and port trunking, only at 2Gb (FC) and 1Gb (iSCSI) speeds. These were very expensive and feature rich back their heyday. Part I: Zoning the Brocade Switch Equipmentįor the Fibre Channel switch (technically a multi protocol router) I chose 2x Brocade Silkworm AP7420 for redundancy. Part IV: Configuring ALUA / Failover in Windows and verifying dual connectivity Part II: Provisioning Storage with EMC Unisphere New Unisphere screens and features focus on Hyper-V and VMware integration which does not concern us in this tutorial. While not the latest versions, the interfaces again have not undergone any significant overhauls when it comes to provisioning new storage (manually.) Unisphere is a great GUI for managing both older CX arrays as well as the new VNXe3100 / VNXe3300 and VNX5300-VNX5700 arrays. On the EMC storage side, we are using the newer Unisphere manager (as opposed to Navisphere) along with FLARE 26. However, the Brocade Fabric OS and Webtools interface has not changed drastically with newer models on the switch side. I am using some older 2Gb Brocade Fibre Channel routers and an older EMC CX array. In this tutorial, I will show you how to configure a server (such as an HP Proliant D元80p) to boot from an EMC Fibre Channel (FC) SAN. Clients, please Login to retrieve your current Visio Network Diagrams, Product Maintenance & Patch Releases, Error Log Analysis, Proposed Solutions, Training Material, Site Best Practices, Custom Scripts, and other available downloads from your secure FTP repository.
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