Using Appliance Ports for NAS

kg6itcraig · ‎11-17-2011

Hey all connecting a NAS to UCS. Would like to plug in directly to FI’s using the Appliance Port option.

Are the steps basically

Turn on Ports use as Appliance Ports
Make PIN Group through Appliance Ports (this will only be one port per FI, I am guess Port-Channels can be used if NAS supports that?)
Make VLAN internal to UCS
Make vNIC Template and use newly created VLAN and PIN Group

Boom!

Right?

Thanks!

Craig

My UCS Blog http://realworlducs.com

Robert Burns · ‎11-17-2011

Have a watch of Brad's great video explaining it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNiYTcvw8I

Regards,

Robert

v-crsimp · ‎11-21-2011

I have made port 20 on each 6120 an Appliance Ports.

Each port is assigned to a VLAN made under the Appliances tab.

Cannot seem to make a PIN group using these Appliance ports. They are not a option.

Is there something I am missing?

Thanks!

Craig

niranjandas · ‎11-21-2011

Can you please specify what kind of devices are you going to connect to these appliance ports ? I mean are they going to be FCoE target or iSCSI target?

Thanks,

v-crsimp · ‎11-21-2011

NFS

Craig

niranjandas · ‎11-21-2011

Thanks. I will assume you are connecting iSCSI storage target ports at the appliance port and iSCSI target will have NFS share.