Implementing the Cisco MDS 9000 in an Intermix FCP, FCIP, and FICON Environment

Implementing the Cisco MDS 9000 in an Intermix FCP, FCIP, and FICON Environment

by Jon Tate, Paul Raytick, John Wickes
Released December 2004
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

This IBM Redbooks publication describes how to install and configure the Cisco MDS 9000 family in an IBM Fibre Connection (FICON), Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) environment.

We have tried to consolidate as much of the critical information as possible while covering procedures and tasks that are likely to be encountered on a daily basis.

Each of the products described has much more functionality than we could ever hope to cover in just one book. The IBM/Cisco SAN portfolio is rich in quality products that bring a vast amount of technicality and vitality to the SAN world. Their inclusion and selection is based on a thorough understanding of the storage networking environment that positions Cisco and IBM, and therefore its customers and partners, in an ideal position to take advantage by their subsequent deployment.

In this book we cover the latest announcements related to the IBM/Cisco SAN family. We show how these announcements and the products can be implemented in both a mainframe and an open systems environment. We address some of the key concepts that they bring to the market, and in each case, we give an overview of those functions that are essential to building a robust SAN environment in an effective and concise manner.

Table of contents

  1. Figures (1/3)
  2. Figures (2/3)
  3. Figures (3/3)
  4. Tables
  5. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  6. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  7. Chapter 1: Cisco switches and directors
    1. Product description
      1. MDS 9120 and 9140 Multilayer Switches
      2. MDS 9216 Multilayer Switch
      3. MDS 9506 Multilayer Director
      4. MDS 9509 Multilayer Director
    2. Features
      1. Supported attachments
      2. Port addressing and port modes
      3. Fibre Channel IDs and Persistent FC_ID
      4. Supported port types
    3. Supervisor module
      1. Control and management
      2. Optional modules
    4. MDS 9000 SAN-OS
      1. Licensed feature packages
      2. Fabric Shortest Path First
      3. PortChannels
      4. Trunking
      5. Quality of Service
      6. Congestion control
      7. IP services
      8. Call home
      9. Virtual SAN
    5. Security management
      1. Switch access security
      2. User authentication
    6. Troubleshooting features
      1. Troubleshooting with Fabric Manager
      2. Monitoring network traffic using SPAN (1/2)
      3. Monitoring network traffic using SPAN (2/2)
      4. Monitoring traffic using Fibre Channel analyzers
    7. FICON
    8. Fabric management
      1. Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager
      2. In-band management and out-of-band management
      3. Using the setup routine
      4. Controlling administrator access with users and roles
      5. Accessing Cisco Fabric Manager
      6. Connecting to a supervisor module
    9. Zoning
      1. Zone features
      2. Zone membership
      3. Configuring a zone
      4. Zone enforcement
      5. Zone sets
      6. Default zone
    10. Switch interoperability mode
      1. Interoperability matrix
    11. IBM feature codes
  8. Chapter 2: Pre-installation planning
    1. General FICON planning considerations
      1. Processor support
    2. Physical layout planning
      1. Port layout
    3. Connecting
      1. Short wave or long wave
    4. Description of the environment we are building
      1. Servers
      2. Storage
      3. IOCDS
      4. Naming conventions
    5. Specific Cisco FICON planning considerations
      1. Licensing
      2. PSP buckets and APARs
      3. Interoperability matrix Web links
      4. Port numbering and addressing
      5. PortChannels and addressing
      6. Domain IDs - persistent/static
      7. HCD/IOCDS definitions
      8. VSANs negate the need for zones
      9. CUP installation
      10. Cascaded versus simple topology
    6. Specific Cisco FCP planning considerations
      1. Licensing and base features
      2. Interoperability matrix Web links
      3. Persistent FCIDs for AIX
      4. Persistent/static domain ids
      5. Zoning
      6. VSANs
      7. Inter VSAN Routing (1/3)
      8. Inter VSAN Routing (2/3)
      9. Inter VSAN Routing (3/3)
    7. FCIP
      1. FCIP requirements
    8. Generic MDS 9000 planning considerations
      1. Console ports to COMs server
      2. Java levels
      3. IP address allocation
      4. Four cables, two IP addresses
      5. COM1 port hooking up a modem
      6. Licensing
      7. Distribution of ISLs
      8. VSANs
      9. Zones and zoning
      10. VSANs versus zones
      11. PortChannnels
      12. Trunking
      13. FTP/TFTP server
      14. Syslog server
      15. Checking the current switch hardware and software levels
  9. Chapter 3: Installing and configuring DM and FM
    1. Obtain the source files
      1. System requirements
    2. Obtaining current versions
      1. Setting up the initial parameters with the setup program
    3. Updating the current FM version (1/2)
    4. Updating the current FM version (2/2)
    5. FM Server versus the bundled version
      1. Licensing
      2. Advantages of FM Server over freeware
    6. Device Manager
  10. Chapter 4: FICON configuration
    1. Hardware configuration definition
    2. Checking processor is enabled for cascading
    3. HCD define of switches to host (1/6)
    4. HCD define of switches to host (2/6)
    5. HCD define of switches to host (3/6)
    6. HCD define of switches to host (4/6)
    7. HCD define of switches to host (5/6)
    8. HCD define of switches to host (6/6)
    9. HCD define of switches to control units (1/2)
    10. HCD define of switches to control units (2/2)
    11. HCD switch cascading (1/2)
    12. HCD switch cascading (2/2)
    13. HCD definition of link addresses (1/5)
    14. HCD definition of link addresses (2/5)
    15. HCD definition of link addresses (3/5)
    16. HCD definition of link addresses (4/5)
    17. HCD definition of link addresses (5/5)
    18. Building the IODF production file (1/2)
    19. Building the IODF production file (2/2)
    20. FICON port numbering on the MDS switches
    21. Cisco MDS 9000 Mainframe Package license (1/2)
    22. Cisco MDS 9000 Mainframe Package license (2/2)
    23. FICON VSAN configuration and requirements (1/2)
    24. FICON VSAN configuration and requirements (2/2)
    25. FICON load balancing
    26. Static domain ID configuration
    27. Fabric binding configuration (1/2)
    28. Fabric binding configuration (2/2)
    29. PortChannel configuration (1/3)
    30. PortChannel configuration (2/3)
    31. PortChannel configuration (3/3)
    32. Moving ports to the FICON VSAN
    33. Verification of working topology (1/4)
    34. Verification of working topology (2/4)
    35. Verification of working topology (3/4)
    36. Verification of working topology (4/4)
    37. FICON configuration files
      1. Using DM to prohibit, block, and swap ports (1/2)
      2. Using DM to prohibit, block, and swap ports (2/2)
      3. Using SA I/O Operations to prohibit and block ports (1/2)
      4. Using SA I/O Operations to prohibit and block ports (2/2)
  11. Chapter 5: FCP configuration
    1. FCP and the Cisco MDS 9000 products
      1. Port addressing and port modes
      2. Zoning
      3. VSAN
      4. Trunking and PortChannel
      5. iSCSI and FCIP support
    2. Initial setup of the Cisco MDS 9000 products
      1. Preparing to configure the switch
      2. Connecting to the switch via the serial port
      3. Setting up the initial parameters with the setup program
      4. Installing the Cisco Fabric Manager and Device Manager
    3. Managing the Cisco SAN with the Fabric Manager
      1. Getting started
      2. User interface
    4. Managing zones and zone sets (1/6)
    5. Managing zones and zone sets (2/6)
    6. Managing zones and zone sets (3/6)
    7. Managing zones and zone sets (4/6)
    8. Managing zones and zone sets (5/6)
    9. Managing zones and zone sets (6/6)
      1. Creating aliases, zones and zone sets (1/3)
      2. Creating aliases, zones and zone sets (2/3)
      3. Creating aliases, zones and zone sets (3/3)
  12. Chapter 6: FCIP configuration
    1. FCIP concepts
    2. FCIP licensing
    3. FCIP configuration (1/4)
    4. FCIP configuration (2/4)
    5. FCIP configuration (3/4)
    6. FCIP configuration (4/4)
    7. Verification
    8. FICON load balancing
    9. Advanced configuration concepts
      1. Advanced FCIP profile configuration
      2. Advanced FCIP interface configuration
      3. Configuring FCIP write acceleration
      4. Enabling FCIP compression
      5. FCIP high availability
  13. Chapter 7: Useful tools and procedures
    1. Syslog server
    2. Setting up an FTP/TFTP server
    3. Checking the current switch hardware and software levels
    4. FM tools
      1. Switch Health Analysis
      2. Fabric Configuration Analysis
      3. End to End Connectivity Analysis
      4. ISL Performance Monitoring
      5. FC Ping
      6. FC Traceroute
    5. Non-disruptive code loads using the CLI (1/2)
    6. Non-disruptive code loads using the CLI (2/2)
    7. Non-disruptive code loads using FM (1/4)
    8. Non-disruptive code loads using FM (2/4)
    9. Non-disruptive code loads using FM (3/4)
    10. Non-disruptive code loads using FM (4/4)
  14. Chapter 8: Security
    1. Securing management access to the switch
      1. SNMP security
      2. AAA using RADIUS and TACACS+ (1/3)
      3. AAA using RADIUS and TACACS+ (2/3)
      4. AAA using RADIUS and TACACS+ (3/3)
      5. Role based authorization
      6. VSAN based authorization (1/2)
      7. VSAN based authorization (2/2)
      8. SSH, SCP, and SFTP services
      9. IP Access Control Lists (1/2)
      10. IP Access Control Lists (2/2)
    2. Securing access to the fabric
      1. VSANs
      2. Zoning
      3. Fibre Channel Security Protocol support
      4. FICON Fabric Binding
      5. Port security (1/2)
      6. Port security (2/2)
      7. Reconfigure Fabric rejection support
      8. Control of principal switch selection
      9. Static domain ID assignment
      10. Static, persistent FCID assignment
  15. Appendix A: CLI and FICON setup script
    1. CLI configuration FICON point to point topology
    2. License installation and verification
    3. FICON VSAN configuration using the FICON setup script
    4. FICON port configuration
    5. Verification
    6. Complete 9506 running configuration
    7. CLI configuration FICON cascaded topology
    8. License installation and verification
    9. FICON VSAN configuration using the FICON setup script
    10. FICON port configuration
    11. PortChannel configuration
    12. FCIP configuration
    13. Verification (1/2)
    14. Verification (2/2)
    15. Complete 9506 and 9216 running configuration (1/2)
    16. Complete 9506 and 9216 running configuration (2/2)
    17. Invalid attachment state
  16. Appendix B: Generated IODF (1/3)
  17. Appendix B: Generated IODF (2/3)
  18. Appendix B: Generated IODF (3/3)
  19. Glossary (1/5)
  20. Glossary (2/5)
  21. Glossary (3/5)
  22. Glossary (4/5)
  23. Glossary (5/5)
  24. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Cisco publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get IBM Redbooks
    5. Help from IBM
  25. Index (1/3)
  26. Index (2/3)
  27. Index (3/3)
  28. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Implementing the Cisco MDS 9000 in an Intermix FCP, FCIP, and FICON Environment
  • Author(s): Jon Tate, Paul Raytick, John Wickes
  • Release date: December 2004
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None