Michael, At my site we ran into an issue where our FCP ports were configured for Longwave(Single Mode) and the ports we were plugged into on the switch were Shortwave(MultiMode). We had to buy new longwave ports for the switch to fix that issue. No clue if this is what you are experiencing, but I would imagine it's common for System Z Ficon cards to come longwave and switches to come shortwave.
Just a thought. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > By whom? FCP is pretty much FCP these days; it may not be approved by the > manufacturer, but it certainly works (and with much less sophisticated > hardware). The only issue I can think of is whether your switches support > NPIV, which is pretty much required to effectively use FCP storage in z/VM. > > Can your SAN folks tell you what errors they're seeing? In most cases, it's > getting the WWPN and NPV settings right, and you should be good to go. > > > ________________________________________ > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Michael Simms [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: EMC, Celerra and FCP > > Our Windows folks have a large EMC Celerra NS-960. We have a z10BC. We ha > ve > genned our IOCP to have 2 FCP channels. Now we are trying to connect via > > switch to the EMC box. We are now being told that this connection is not > > possible. > Has anyone done anything like this? > Thoughts? Hints? >
