
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:
- connect your laptop via the serial-utp connection to the serial-utp port on the switch (IOIOI)
- open a putty/serial connection
- login with default credentials: admin/password
- setup network with commands (ipaddrset, ipaddrshow):
ipaddrset
ipaddrshow - setup date/time:
tstimezone –interactive
date “mmddHHMMyy” - switch names:
switchname “name”
chassisname “name” - licensing:
licenseadd “key”
licenseshow - 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”
Great post for beginners like me, I know it’s been a while since this was posted. I have a couple of questions though.
I need to add and additional EMC SAN 5400 to the current switch. All the ESXi hosts and the old SAN are already configured now on the switch in Zones. I want to add the new SAN and give access to the same hosts.
1. What is a good way to do this, Add the new SAN target into the existing zones so 1 server HBA -> 2 targets ( Old SAN and new SAN) or create all new zoness with the Server HBA –> new SAN Target
2. Once I save the Config and then Enable the Config will this interrupt the traffic during the “Enabling” of the changes.
Thanks
Ray