Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: Fibre Channel Zoning with Brocade and the ZFS Storage Appliance

Asset ID:	1-79-1663307.1
Update Date:	2018-05-25
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Solution 1663307.1 : Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: Fibre Channel Zoning with Brocade and the ZFS Storage Appliance

Applies to:

Sun ZFS Storage 7420 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Sun ZFS Storage 7320 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Sun ZFS Storage 7120 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-4 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
7000 Appliance OS (Fishworks)

Purpose

This document describes how to create a basic Fibre Channel zone with a Brocade switch that can contain the ZFS Storage Appliance as well as adding any connected Windows, Linux, and Solaris hosts.

Details

Obtaining WWN's from each HBA

Each host bus adapter (HBA) inside a server or storage appliance has a world wide name (WWN) for each of its ports. These are broadcast across a Fibre Channel fabric.

In order to create a zone, these WWN's need to be gathered. Common instructions for the ZFSSA, Windows, Linux, and Solaris are listed below.

ZFS Storage Appliance

From the ZFS Storage BUI, select Configuration -> SAN to view the WWN under ports.

WWNBUI

This can also be accomplished from the CLI.

zfssa:> configuration san fc targets show
Properties:
                       targets = wwn.2100000E1E148B80,wwn.2100000E1E148B81

Targets:

NAME       MODE       WWN                     PORT                 SPEED
target-000 target     wwn.2100000E1E148B80    PCIe 4: Port 1       16 Gbit/s
target-001 target     wwn.2100000E1E148B81    PCIe 4: Port 2       16 Gbit/s

Children:
                           groups => Manage groups

Windows

The Fibre Channel Information Tool (fcio) is needed. You can download it directly from Microsoft. Once installed, it should be run from the command prompt as Administrator.

C:\> fcinfo
com.qlogic-QLE2562-0: PortWWN: 21:00:00:24:ff:31:82:68 \\.\Scsi2:
com.qlogic-QLE2562-0: PortWWN: 21:00:00:24:ff:31:82:69 \\.\Scsi3:

Oracle Linux

From a root shell, discover the ports under /sys. The following example uses host0 and host1, but these may vary between systems.

# cat /sys/class/fc_host/host0/port_name
0x21000024ff57734c
# cat /sys/class/fc_host/host1/port_name
0x21000024ff57734d

Solaris

From a root shell, extract using fcinfo:

# fcinfo hba-port | grep 'HBA Port WWN'
HBA Port WWN: 21000024ff3505f8
HBA Port WWN: 21000024ff3505f9

Creating WWN aliases on the Brocade switch

After logging into the switch explorer, select 'Zone Admin' from the menu screen.

ZONE_ADMIN

Select 'New Alias' and enter an alias for each WWN. This should follow a syntax consisting of the port number and hostname.

ZFSSA_PORT0

Once created, find the listed WWN and move it underneath the alias using the right arrow.

ZFSSA_MOVE_ALIAS

Repeat this for each port's WWN to be used in the zone. This should include every Windows/Linux/Solaris host that expects to access the ZFS Storage Appliance.

Creating a basic zone on the Brocade switch

Select the 'Zone' tab and click on 'New Zone.'

NEW_ZONE

Add all aliases for the ZFS Storage Appliance and any connected Windows/Linux/Solaris hosts to the zone.

ZONE

Enabling the zone on the Brocade switch

Select 'Save Config' to save the zone configuration followed by 'Enable Config' to propagate the zone through the fabric.

ENABLE_CONFIG

Viewing the zone on the ZFS Storage Appliance

From the ZFS Storage BUI, select Configuration -> SAN to view the hosts under the newly created zone.

SAN

Clicking on the 'i' next to the newly discovered ports will present the WWN's of the zone you created. You can now assign aliases for the ZFS Storage Appliance. This makes it simpler to assign provisioned LUNs to a particular host and port.

HOSTS

***Checked for relevance on 25-MAY-2018***

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