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April 24th, 2014 14:00
CX Mirrorview ports
I have a CX4-120 with mirrorview installed.
Currently, each SP has 2x 4GB ports (A0,A1) and (B0,B1).
We also have 8Gb cards installed as well
These show up as A4,A5 and B4,B5.
However, both A5 and B5 are listed as Mirrorview when you go to the port management screen.
Aditionally, the switch doesn't see these ports by their WWN, but by some other unknown code.
Is there a way to restore ports A5 and B5 to be host-facing front-end ports?
We are not currently utilizing mirror view, it's just installed on the array.
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usao
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April 24th, 2014 15:00
Don't know why they show up as loop. I changed ports on the switch and the L-port kept following the cable wherever I moved it to. Anyhow, I resetit manually to an F-port and it seems to recognize it now and show the correct WWN value which matches the CX array.
M_Salem
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April 24th, 2014 15:00
Can you please copy and paste the UNKNOWN code showing from the switch with the command you used?
Hope that helps
Mohammed Salem @yankoora
usao
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April 24th, 2014 15:00
Both the mirrorview ports were showing up as L-ports on the switch-side while the non-mirror view ports were showing up as F-ports.
I went into the switch and forced the to be F-ports, then the WWN did showup. So, it looks correct and I will test port failure this afternoon.
Not sure why the mirrorview caused the ports to become L-ports though, hope that's nothing to worry about.
usao
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April 24th, 2014 15:00
Going to give it a try and see if I can get host-side IO through those ports. Thanks
M_Salem
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April 24th, 2014 15:00
The 2 ports will always be showing as Mirrorview ports from Unisphere port management for block GUI interface however, this will not impact you in anything. You still can consider them normal front-end ports and zone them directly to your Hosts.
Hope that helps
Mohammed Salem @yankoora
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April 24th, 2014 15:00
You can use MirrorView ports as regular ports, nothing special needs to be done on the array.
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April 24th, 2014 15:00
Loop . that’s odd.