Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hardware overview
- 3 Topology overview
- 4 Preparation
- 5 S4148U-ON switch configuration
- 6 S4148U-ON validation
- 7 Configure Unity FC storage
- 8 Configure storage on ESXi hosts
- 9 Configure ESXi hosts for LAN traffic
- A Validated components
- B Technical support and resources
- C Support and feedback
25 Dell EMC Networking FCoE-to-Fibre Channel Deployment with S4148U-ON in F_port Mode | version 1.0
Configure FC aliases for CNA and storage WWPNs. Using aliases is optional, but makes the configuration
more user-friendly.
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fc alias r640-1p1
member wwn 20:01:18:66:DA:71:50:AD
fc alias r640-2p1
member wwn 20:01:18:66:DA:77:D0:C3
fc alias SpB-0
member wwn 50:06:01:6E:47:E0:1B:19
fc alias SpA-0
member wwn 50:06:01:66:47:E0:1B:19
fc alias r640-1p2
member wwn 20:01:18:66:DA:71:50:AF
fc alias r640-2p2
member wwn 20:01:18:66:DA:77:D0:C5
fc alias SpB-1
member wwn 50:06:01:6F:47:E0:1B:19
fc alias SpA-1
member wwn 50:06:01:67:47:E0:1B:19
CNA and storage adapter WWPNs are combined into zones to allow communication between devices in the
same zone. Dell EMC recommends single-initiator zoning. In other words, no more than one server CNA port
per zone. For high availability, each CNA port should be zoned to at least one port from SP A and one port
from SP B.
In this deployment, one zone is created for each CNA port. The zone contains the CNA port and the two
storage processor ports connected to the same S4148U-ON.
S4148U-Leaf1
S4148U-Leaf2
fc zone r640-1p1zone
member alias-name r640-1p1
member alias-name SpB-0
member alias-name SpA-0
fc zone r640-2p1zone
member alias-name r640-2p1
member alias-name SpB-0
member alias-name SpA-0
fc zone r640-1p2zone
member alias-name r640-1p2
member alias-name SpB-1
member alias-name SpA-1
fc zone r640-2p2zone
member alias-name r640-2p2
member alias-name SpB-1
member alias-name SpA-1
A zone set is a collection of zones. A zone set named zoneset1 is created on each switch, and the zones are
added to it.
Note: Multiple zone sets may be configured, but only one zone set can be active at any time.
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S4148U-Leaf2
fc zoneset zoneset1
member r640-1p1zone
member r640-2p1zone
exit
fc zoneset zoneset1
member r640-1p2zone
member r640-2p2zone
exit