Cisco TrustSec Fibre Channel Link Encryption performance?

Hello,
could anybody provide me some more details about Cisco TrustSec Fibre Channel Link Encryption? We are thinking to invest in this feature. Can I really use all 32 FC Ports @ 8Gbit wire speed on the 3Gen Cards? Have somebody used this feature already?
Many Thanks in advanced!
gk

In my experience the auto connect never works properly with certain vendor products. Try hard setting your link speed, i.e. 2G or 4G depending on your HBA capabilities and the target device.

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Fibre Channel Link light off on Xserve

I noticed a few days ago that the lower Fibre Channel link light and Activity lights are no longer working on the lower unit on my Xserve. So far I tried unplugging and replugging the Fibre cable but that didn't help.
THere are no warning lights lit on the Fibre card on the back of my G5, and from flipping through the Xserve manual, it looks like all those lights are correct also.
We recently had the network rewired and since then I haven't been able to access the RAID Admin to see what's up. I may have to reset the controller though.
If you have any advice on where to start troubleshooting, or settings to check once I get the RAID Admin working I'd appreciate the advice, thanks!
PS: I have installed the Xserve Driver Update 1.0

Everything seems to be working normally. I'm mastering off the few projects I just finished, and I'm able to play back to streams of Uncompressed 10 bit SD so far so good. Although the one working channel seems to be working a bit harder than usual
The Xserve RAID is hooked directly to my powermac G5 via Apple's Fibre Channel Card. I talked to my boss who has been working wit the network people and said the IP address should be the same, and it should be picking up DHCP. From your post it sounded like there may be a setting in RAID Admin for this? I'll check after I finish Edit to Tape
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Xserve Raid will not mount - fibre channel link down

I came back from being out of town and my Xserve is running, but will not mount on the G5 tower via fibre channel. It was powered off and up again and still nothing. Apple tech says to reset raid controllers, however, I have sensitive data on the drives and lots of video/FCP projects on there. It has just run out of warranty and now asked to pay $199 per incident to get any help. I will gladly take any help.
Read the boards, ran Disk Utility and still did not show up.
Also, told the fibre cables tend to "burn out" but have yet to spend money if this is not the problem.
Thanks.

Resetting the controllers is non-destructive. However, if you power-cycled the array, that should take care of it.
told the fibre cables tend to "burn out"
I've never experienced (or heard of this) myself, and have never had a problem on any of my arrays, some of which have been running for years with zero problems. Of course, environment (especially heat) could play a part, but it seems a little bit of a stretch to me.
Does RAID Admin have anything to say about the RAID?

Cisco fibre channel domain manager "fast start" feature

Hi there:
I'm trying to understand the
cisco fibre channel domain manager "fast start" feature
but I can't
Manual say:
About Domain Manager Fast Restart
As of Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.0(2), when a principal link fails, the domain manager must select a new principal link. By default, the domain manager starts a build fabric (BF) phase, followed by a principal switch selection phase. Both of these phases involve all the switches in the VSAN and together take at least 15 seconds to complete. To reduce the time required for the domain manager to select a new principal link, you can enable the domain manager fast restart feature.
When fast restart is enabled and a backup link is available, the domain manager needs only a few milliseconds to select a new principal link to replace the one that failed. Also, the reconfiguration required to select the new principal link only affects the two switches that are directly attached to the failed link, not the entire VSAN. When a backup link is not available, the domain manager reverts to the default behavior and starts a BF phase, followed by a principal switch selection phase. The fast restart feature can be used in any interoperability mode.
Questions:
Those links are not a Port channel, aren't they?
If those links would form a port channel then it is not need the fast restart feature?
In case of there are not a backup link, should be another fabric path and host should conmute because multipath?
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Thank you in advance for your comments
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Please post "debug ccsip messages".
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Clarification on how to use Xserve Raid and Fibre Channel without xsan.

First let me apologize for not responding earlier to your response, I tend to get busy and then forget to check back here.
Tod, the answer to your question is No, only one computer is accessing the xserve raid files at any one time and that is via Fibre Channel. However I do have the xserve raids set up as share points via ethernet.
Maybe I should turn that off and only access the files with the one computer that can connect via fibre channel.
I never thought of that. I will try that while I await for your answer, thanks again.
Todd Buhmiller
I have the following setup:
Xserve: 2x2Ghz Dual Core Intel Xeon, 5Gb of Ram, Running 10.5.8 Leopard Server
Xserve Raid with firmware version 1.5.1/1.51c on both controllers, and
Qlogic Sanbox 5600
Apple Fibre Channel Cards in Xserve, and Mac Pro Tower; Apple 2 Port 4Gbs Fibre Channel Card
Mac Pro Tower-Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz, 16Gb of Ram, Running Snow Leopard 10.6.4
Here is the problem.
The directory for the xserve raids keep getting corrup, and I use disc warrior to rebuild them. Is there a way to keep the directories from getting corrupt? I am a few pieces of equipment before I can build an Xsan as that is the ultimate goal, but until then, I just need to be able to have the raids funciton as storage without having to rebuild the directories all of the time.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks
Todd Buhmiller
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Re: Xserve Raid Mounts, Corrupt Directory tired of rebuilding directory
Posted: Jun 27, 2010 1:25 PM in response to: Todd Buhmiller
Are multiple computers accessing the same data on the RAID at the same time?
If so then NO. This is the source of your data corruption and I'm surprised if you were able to get all your data back every time if this is how you've been running your system. Each fibre channel assumes it has full and sole control of every volume it has mounted, no data arbitration is practiced and data corruption will occur if this assumption is wrong.
The only way this set-up will work is to use partitions or LUN masks so the volumes are accessed by one computer at any time. As long as one computer relinquishes control before another mounts it you will dodge arbitration issues but this is a dangerous game. If you screw up and mount an already mounted volume - and there is no easy way to tell if a volume is mounted - corruption will then occur. Sharing data simultaneous at fibre speeds is what XSAN does and to do this you need it.
HTH,
=Tod
Intel Xserve, G5 XServes, XRAID, Promise

+The xserve raids will mount automatically to any computer that I connect the qlogic fc switch to+
This is source of the corruption to your data. Any computer that attaches to a drive/partition via fibre channel assumes that it alone is in control of the drive and data corruption is inevitable.
+Is that the issue, should I disconnect the xserve from the fc switch and leave it connected via ethernet?+
Short answer: YES. The ethernet connections are fine because the server is controlling the file arbitration through the sharing protocol. Fibre channel connections assumes complete control over the partition and no arbitration of the file access is performed. It's like two people independently driving trying to drive the same car to different locations.
Depending on your set-up it is possible for the two machines to see and use different parts of the Xserve RAID storage but they cannot access the same areas without SAN doing the arbitration.
Hope that's clear,
=Tod

Need docs that explain Fibre Channel setup, getting I/O error on 2540 SAN

Sun T5220 Host running Solaris 10 5/09 as management host.
Qlogic 5602 FC Switch
Sun Storagetek 2540 - one controller tray with 9 300G SAS Hitachi drives. Firmware 7.35.x.
Sun branded Qlogic QLE2462 HBAs - PCI express, dual port. 3 in the T5220. qlcxxxx drivers for the HBAs.
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newfs /dev/rdsk/device_name_from_output_of_luxadm_probe
I get an immediate I/O error. I could be doing something totally naive or have a larger problem - this is where I get lost and the documentation becomes less detailed.
What would be great is if anyone knows of a detailed writeup that would match what I'm doing or a good off-the-shelf textbook that covers all of this or anything close. I continue to search for something to bridge my lack of knowledge in this area. I am unclear about the initiators and targets beyond the fundamental definitions. I have used the CAM 6.5 software to define the initiators that it discovered. I have mapped the Sun host into a host group also. I do not know what role the Qlogic 5602 Fibre Channel switch plays with respect to initiators and targets or if it has any role at all. Is it just a "pass through" and the ports on the 5602 do not have to be included? Maybe I don't have the SAN volume available in read/write. I find bits and pieces in blogs and forums, but nothing that puts it all together. I also find that many of the notes on the web are not accurate.
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Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-2
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Port World Wide Name: 10:00:00:06:2B:12:C4:C4
Address Identifier: 00:00:E8
Description: Port 0
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Node World Wide Name: 20:00:00:E0:00:41:04:6D
Port World Wide Name: 21:00:00:E0:00:41:04:6D
Address Identifier: 00:00:EF
SCSI Target Identifier: 0
SCSI Peripheral Device Type: 0
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Model: GR710
Revision: 0000
SCSI Logical Unit @ 0:
SCSI Logical Unit Number: 0
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Model: GR710
Revision: 0000
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Hardware RAID says that there is no hardware present.
I am using the Apple MA900A/G Fibre Channel Card to hook into the Drive array. It is hooked up with both ethernet and fiber optic cables.
I have used an IP scanner to search for the IP of the array and only find one that I can't identify at 224.0.0.251 another scan reports an IP of 0.0.0.0, neither worked when I tried to use Safari to access it.
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The Promise that way - you can configure the device entire from the web interface and you don't need fibre communication working for any of the configuration of what RAID you want and which disks are attached with what set etc. Once the RAIDs are configured into volumes then the Xserve sees they exist and you can use Disk Utility to format them. If you don't need fibre communication I don't see how SCSI drivers would matter over ethernet. But maybe the box is a strange beast - odder things have been made.
Barring that - can you attach the device to an older machine with the drivers and configure the device into raw volumes and then an HFS+ (or whatever you want) system? If you did that and then switched the box back to Xserve it should be able to pick up the configured volumes drivers or no.
My $.02,
=Tod

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Hi Marvin, first, you would want to ensure the router or switch you use has support for SG-ACLs and enforcement via:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/trustsec/trustsec_matrix.html
One you know that works, you can configure SG-ACLs with a source or destination on "unknown". This keyword indicates traffic where we cannot discover what SGT should be assigned to that traffic, or in other words, outside the trustsec domain. We use a relatively common command-set on enforcement supporting platforms, take a look at the following link for command syntax:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/trustsec/configuration/guide/trustsec/sgacl_config.html
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/san/archive/2008/07/27/microsoft-mpio-command-line-reference-mpclaim-and-server-core-configuration.aspx
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When I do live migration from cluster or SCVMM it save and start virtual machine. Which fro me is not live migration.
I have describe in more details : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a52ac102-4ea3-491c-a8c5-4cf4dd14768d/synthetic-fibre-channel-hba-live-migration-savestopstart?forum=winserverhyperv
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1.) WS-X4424-GB-RJ4 (Catalyst 4500 24-port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ45)
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_data_sheet0900aecd802109ea.html
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http://datacenteroverlords.com/2013/04/01/jumbo-fc-frames/
http://www.ccierants.com/2013/10/ccie-dc-definitive-jumbo-frames.html
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Did you check
http://datacenteroverlords.com/2013/04/01/jumbo-fc-frames/
Erik Smith says:
April 1, 2013 at 5:52 pm
April fools! I wish I saw this earlier, I would have posted corroborating test results!
In Summary: forget Jumbo Frames for FC !

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Hi everybody,
I'm installing a Nexus 56128P and I try to configure Fibre Channel native interface on GEM N56-M24UP2Q.
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slot 2
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I checked the license, i have the FC_FEATURES_PKG installed but "unused".
I guess i missed something, but can't figure out what.
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see https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12254396/fc-ports-nexus-5548up
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