Quicksetup EMC Connectrix DS-300B

EMC CONNECTRIX DS-300B

The EMC® Connectrix® DS-300B provides a cost-effective, flexible foundation for entry-level SANs and can serve as an edge switch for core-to-edge SAN environments.

FIBRE CHANNEL PORTS
24 ports in 8-port increments through Ports-on-Demand licenses at 8, 16, and 24 universal (E, F, M, FL, or N) ports

Auto-sensing of 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s port speeds

Basic setup:

1. connect your laptop via the serial-utp connection to the serial-utp port on the switch (IOIOI)
   
2. open a putty/serial connection
3. login with default credentials: admin/password
4. setup network with commands (ipaddrset, ipaddrshow):
   ipaddrset
   ipaddrshow
5. setup date/time:
   tstimezone –interactive
   date “mmddHHMMyy”
6. switch names:
   switchname “name”
   chassisname “name”
7. licensing:
   licenseadd “key”
   licenseshow
8. ethernet cabling

Now you should be able to use your browser/java to connect to the GUI.

Zoning:

In the GUI, you need to open the “Zone Administration” page.
In most of cases, I’m doing fabric-based soft zoning. I’m almost never doing port zoning because things will go wrong when someone misplaces a fibre cable.
Recommended approach is using “Single-HBA” zoning, so Each zone created has only one server-HBA (initiator) in the zone together with all of the target storage devices.

For instance

1. create Aliases A zone alias is a familiar name assigned to a device or a group of devices.example: alias “SPA_P0” = 50:06:01:60:bb:60:00:56 (EMC VNX Storage Processor A, Port 0) 60=SP A Port 0 61=SP A Port 1 68=SP B Port 0 69=SP B Port 1Typically the customer will have 2 FC switches (failover). Switch1 will have 2 VNX connections: alias: SPA_P0 50:06:01:60:3e:a0:5b:f8 alias: SPB_P0 50:06:01:68:3e:a0:5b:f8 Switch2 will have 2 other failover VNX connections alias: SPA_P1 50:06:01:61:3e:a0:5b:f8 alias: SPB_P1 50:06:01:69:3e:a0:5b:f8

DS300B alias

2. create Zones I’m using Single-HBA zoning, so each zone created has only one server-HBA (initiator) in the zone together with the aliases created for all of the target storage devices.

DS300B Zoning

3. create Zone Config Add all zones to the Zone Config which will later be saved and applied.

DS300B Zone Config

4. Save Config

5. Enable Config

Useful commands:
#ipaddrshow
#ipaddrset
#tstimezone –interactive
#date “mmddHHMMyy”
#switchname “name”
#chassisname “name”
#fabricshow
#licenseadd “key”
#licenseshow
#zoneHelp
#cfgshow
#zone –validate “zone1”

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