04-05-2012 08:24 AM - edited 03-01-2019 10:21 AM
Is there a way to test vNIC or hba failover on an individual blade. I don't want to have to turn a fabric interconnect off to validate that I have setup a vNIC or hba appropriately on a single blade so is there anyway from the Fabric Interconnect cli to disable a vNIC / hba or force it to failover to the other fabric?
04-05-2012 09:05 AM
Unfortunatley not, would be nice to be able to do a "Shut" on a veth in NXOS mode but you can't (not yet anyway.)
The best way I have found to test blade failover with MINIMAL disruption is to pull the FEX - FI link out, that that blade Pins to. THIS CAN EFFECT other blades depending on your setup.
I.e. if you only have a single FEX link obviously all your blades will be using it.
Best scenario is to use 4 FEX links (If using Gen 1 kit, with discrete pinning) then if you have a full chassis of half width blades you will have 2 servers pinned to each uplink. i.e. 1/5 to link 1, 2/6 to Link 2, 3/7 to link 3 and Blades 4/8 to link 4.
So if you pull FEX link one on FEX A out in the above scenario, all vNICS mapped to Fabric A will failover (if configured to do so) on blades 1 and 5.
Not ideal but better and much quicker than failing a whole FI as you were thinking about.
Obviously the above will not work if you have port-channelled the FEX - FI links.
Regards
Colin
04-05-2012 10:13 AM
You can test fibre channel failures by putting one of the vHBA's into another VSAN. This will break the zoning for that vHBA. You can just create a dummy VSAN if you don't have one to put it into. This will test your multipathing to the target. vfc's will not failover like a veth will on loss of connection or FI.
There are requests to be able to shut/no-shut a vif, but, nothing so far.
Dave
04-05-2012 10:15 AM
Just to add to Dave's preferred method - changing a VSAN on a vHBA does not require a re-ack of the compute node. Same concept as modifying VLANs on a vNIC.
Robert
04-08-2012 09:28 AM
I believe if you reset the DCE interface it will induce FF. You would do that from the equipment tab.
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