Implementing the Cisco MDS 9000 in an Intermix FCP, FCIP, and FICON environment / Jon Tate, Paul Raytick, John Wickes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tate, Jon.

Contributor:

Raytick, Paul.

Wickes, John.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storage area networks (Computer networks).

Fibre Channel (Standard).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

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Chapter 1. Cisco switches and directors

1.1 Product description

1.1.1 MDS 9120 and 9140 Multilayer Switches

1.1.2 MDS 9216 Multilayer Switch

1.1.3 MDS 9506 Multilayer Director

1.1.4 MDS 9509 Multilayer Director

1.2 Features

1.2.1 Supported attachments

1.2.2 Port addressing and port modes

1.2.3 Fibre Channel IDs and Persistent FC_ID

1.2.4 Supported port types

1.3 Supervisor module

1.3.1 Control and management

1.3.2 Optional modules

1.4 MDS 9000 SAN-OS

1.4.1 Licensed feature packages

1.4.2 Fabric Shortest Path First

1.4.3 PortChannels

1.4.4 Trunking

1.4.5 Quality of Service

1.4.6 Congestion control

1.4.7 IP services

1.4.8 Call home

1.4.9 Virtual SAN

1.5 Security management

1.5.1 Switch access security

1.5.2 User authentication

1.6 Troubleshooting features

1.6.1 Troubleshooting with Fabric Manager

1.6.2 Monitoring network traffic using SPAN

1.6.3 Monitoring traffic using Fibre Channel analyzers

1.7 FICON

1.8 Fabric management

1.8.1 Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager

1.8.2 In-band management and out-of-band management

1.8.3 Using the setup routine

1.8.4 Controlling administrator access with users and roles

1.8.5 Accessing Cisco Fabric Manager

1.8.6 Connecting to a supervisor module

1.9 Zoning

1.9.1 Zone features

1.9.2 Zone membership

1.9.3 Configuring a zone

1.9.4 Zone enforcement

1.9.5 Zone sets

1.9.6 Default zone

1.10 Switch interoperability mode

1.10.1 Interoperability matrix

1.11 IBM feature codes

Chapter 2. Pre-installation planning

2.1 General FICON planning considerations

2.1.1 Processor support

2.2 Physical layout planning.

2.2.1 Port layout

2.3 Connecting

2.3.1 Short wave or long wave

2.4 Description of the environment we are building

2.4.1 Servers

2.4.2 Storage

2.4.3 IOCDS

2.4.4 Naming conventions

2.5 Specific Cisco FICON planning considerations

2.5.1 Licensing

2.5.2 PSP buckets and APARs

2.5.3 Interoperability matrix Web links

2.5.4 Port numbering and addressing

2.5.5 PortChannels and addressing

2.5.6 Domain IDs - persistent/static

2.5.7 HCD/IOCDS definitions

2.5.8 VSANs negate the need for zones

2.5.9 CUP installation

2.5.10 Cascaded versus simple topology

2.6 Specific Cisco FCP planning considerations

2.6.1 Licensing and base features

2.6.2 Interoperability matrix Web links

2.6.3 Persistent FCIDs for AIX

2.6.4 Persistent/static domain ids

2.6.5 Zoning

2.6.6 VSANs

2.6.7 Inter VSAN Routing

2.7 FCIP

2.7.1 FCIP requirements

2.8 Generic MDS 9000 planning considerations

2.8.1 Console ports to COMs server

2.8.2 Java levels

2.8.3 IP address allocation

2.8.4 Four cables, two IP addresses

2.8.5 COM1 port hooking up a modem

2.8.6 Licensing

2.8.7 Distribution of ISLs

2.8.8 VSANs

2.8.9 Zones and zoning

2.8.10 VSANs versus zones

2.8.11 PortChannnels

2.8.12 Trunking

2.8.13 FTP/TFTP server

2.8.14 Syslog server

2.8.15 Checking the current switch hardware and software levels

Chapter 3. Installing and configuring DM and FM

3.1 Obtain the source files

3.1.1 System requirements

3.2 Obtaining current versions

3.2.1 Setting up the initial parameters with the setup program

3.3 Updating the current FM version

3.4 FM Server versus the bundled version

3.4.1 Licensing

3.4.2 Advantages of FM Server over freeware

3.5 Device Manager

Chapter 4. FICON configuration

4.1 Hardware configuration definition.

4.2 Checking processor is enabled for cascading

4.3 HCD define of switches to host

4.4 HCD define of switches to control units

4.5 HCD switch cascading

4.6 HCD definition of link addresses

4.7 Building the IODF production file

4.8 FICON port numbering on the MDS switches

4.9 Cisco MDS 9000 Mainframe Package license

4.10 FICON VSAN configuration and requirements

4.11 FICON load balancing

4.12 Static domain ID configuration

4.13 Fabric binding configuration

4.14 PortChannel configuration

4.15 Moving ports to the FICON VSAN

4.16 Verification of working topology

4.17 FICON configuration files

4.17.1 Using DM to prohibit, block, and swap ports

4.17.2 Using SA I/O Operations to prohibit and block ports

Chapter 5. FCP configuration

5.1 FCP and the Cisco MDS 9000 products

5.1.1 Port addressing and port modes

5.1.2 Zoning

5.1.3 VSAN

5.1.4 Trunking and PortChannel

5.1.5 iSCSI and FCIP support

5.2 Initial setup of the Cisco MDS 9000 products

5.2.1 Preparing to configure the switch

5.2.2 Connecting to the switch via the serial port

5.2.3 Setting up the initial parameters with the setup program

5.2.4 Installing the Cisco Fabric Manager and Device Manager

5.3 Managing the Cisco SAN with the Fabric Manager

5.3.1 Getting started

5.3.2 User interface

5.4 Managing zones and zone sets

5.4.1 Creating aliases, zones and zone sets

Chapter 6. FCIP configuration

6.1 FCIP concepts

6.2 FCIP licensing

6.3 FCIP configuration

6.4 Verification

6.5 FICON load balancing

6.6 Advanced configuration concepts

6.6.1 Advanced FCIP profile configuration

6.6.2 Advanced FCIP interface configuration

6.6.3 Configuring FCIP write acceleration

6.6.4 Enabling FCIP compression

6.6.5 FCIP high availability

Chapter 7. Useful tools and procedures.

7.1 Syslog server

7.2 Setting up an FTP/TFTP server

7.3 Checking the current switch hardware and software levels

7.4 FM tools

7.4.1 Switch Health Analysis

7.4.2 Fabric Configuration Analysis

7.4.3 End to End Connectivity Analysis

7.4.4 ISL Performance Monitoring

7.4.5 FC Ping

7.4.6 FC Traceroute

7.5 Non-disruptive code loads using the CLI

7.6 Non-disruptive code loads using FM

Chapter 8. Security

8.1 Securing management access to the switch

8.1.1 SNMP security

8.1.2 AAA using RADIUS and TACACS+

8.1.3 Role based authorization

8.1.4 VSAN based authorization

8.1.5 SSH, SCP, and SFTP services

8.1.6 IP Access Control Lists

8.2 Securing access to the fabric

8.2.1 VSANs

8.2.2 Zoning

8.2.3 Fibre Channel Security Protocol support

8.2.4 FICON Fabric Binding

8.2.5 Port security

8.2.6 Reconfigure Fabric rejection support

8.2.7 Control of principal switch selection

8.2.8 Static domain ID assignment

8.2.9 Static, persistent FCID assignment

Appendix A. CLI and FICON setup script

CLI configuration FICON point to point topology

License installation and verification

FICON VSAN configuration using the FICON setup script

FICON port configuration

Verification

Complete 9506 running configuration

CLI configuration FICON cascaded topology

PortChannel configuration

FCIP configuration

Complete 9506 and 9216 running configuration

Invalid attachment state

Appendix B. Generated IODF

Glossary

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Cisco publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"December 2004."

"SG24-6397-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137342150