We use two Cisco MDS IBM Blade FC Switch in IBM BladeCenter contains of 14 Blades with Qlogic HBA and IBM DS4700 Storage with 14 Logical Drives LUN for booting from SAN.
We use Enterprise package in grace period
ENTERPRISE_PKG No - In use Grace 104D 2H
We configured 8 zone in vsan 2 with 8 LUN from DS4700.
When committed zone changes with more then 7 LUN in zones, LUN Zoning disabled with message:
CiscoBl-FC1(config)# zone commit vsan 2
Commit operation initiated. Check zone status
CiscoBl-FC1(config)# 2008 Jan 11 08:02:15 CiscoBl-FC1 %ZONE-2-ZS_TCAM_PROGRAMMING_FAILED: %$VSAN 2%$ TCAM operation failed : , Reason: Only 7 LUN's are supported
2008 Jan 11 08:02:15 CiscoBl-FC1 %ZONE-2-ZS_TCAM_SWITCHED_TO_SOFT_ZONING_MODE: %$VSAN 2%$ Switched to soft zoning : Reason: Hard zoning disabled
2008 Jan 11 08:02:15 CiscoBl-FC1 %ZONE-2-ZS_TCAM_LUN_ZONING_DISABLED: %$VSAN 2%$ LUN zoning disabled : Reason: Hard zoning disabled
CiscoBl-FC1# sh zone status
VSAN: 2 default-zone: deny distribute: full Interop: default
mode: enhanced merge-control: allow
session: none
hard-zoning: disabled broadcast: unsupported
Default zone:
qos: none broadcast: unsupported ronly: disabled
Full Zoning Database :
Zonesets:1 Zones:9 Aliases: 0 Attribute-groups: 1
Active Zoning Database :
CiscoBl-FC1# sh ver
Cisco Storage Area Networking Operating System (SAN-OS) Software
TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002-2007, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
The copyrights to certain works contained herein are owned by
other third parties and are used and distributed under license.
Some parts of this software may be covered under the GNU Public
License or the GNU Lesser General Public License. A copy of
each such license is available at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html and
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
Software
BIOS: version 1.0.11
kickstart: version 3.1(3a)
system: version 3.1(3a)
BIOS compile time: 08/02/07
kickstart image file is: bootflash:/m9100-s2ek9-kickstart-mz.3.1.3a.bin
kickstart compile time: 5/22/2007 17:00:00 [06/17/2007 01:19:57]
system image file is: bootflash:/m9100-s2ek9-mz.3.1.3a.bin
system compile time: 5/22/2007 17:00:00 [06/17/2007 01:37:28]
Hardware
cisco MDS IBM FC ("1/2/4 Gbps FC/Supervisor-2")
Motorola, e500 with 515052 kB of memory.
Processor Board ID xxxxxxxxxx
bootflash: 250368 kB
slot0: 0 kB
CiscoBl-FC1 kernel uptime is 0 days 2 hours 52 minute(s) 40 second(s)
Last reset at 24255 usecs after Fri Jan 11 05:37:40 2008
Reason: Reset Requested by CLI command reload
System version: 3.1(3a)
Service:
We could not find any information of LUN zoning limitations at cisco.com and SAN OS documentation.
Q:
How to create zone with more than 7 LUN, without disabling hard zoning and LUN zoning?
Should we use M9100ENT1K9 part-number to order ENTERPRISE_PKG license?
