UCS connection to McData SAN infrastructure

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to connect an UCS to a SAN based on McData SAN switches. I configured the WWN pools and the vHBAs. The SAN Admin told me, NPV is on the port activated and NPIV is supported.
On the swicthes, my WWPNs are visible and the SAN Admin configured the zoning and the presentation already. If I rescan the the SAN on my ESX, I can't see any path or presentated LUNs at all. LIP reset with no success.
in the past, I had access to the whole environment and there was no special configuration to get this working. At this time I was working with Brocade/HP SAN switches. Today I'm only responsible for the UCS an the vSphere environment and the other admins have no experience with UCS.
Any tips or hints will be very helpfull tu get this working. Do I have to make any special configurations? Does anyone have experience with UCS and McData SAN and can share the needed configurations with me?
Kind Regards
Bastian

Answer 1

Hi,
many thanks for your help.
show npv flogi-table shows:
SERVER                                                                  EXTERNAL
INTERFACE VSAN FCID             PORT NAME               NODE NAME       INTERFAC
E
vfc791    1000 0x636215 20:00:00:25:b5:10:a1:00 20:00:00:25:b5:10:c1:00 fc2/1
vfc793    1000 0x636214 20:00:00:25:b5:10:a1:01 20:00:00:25:b5:10:c1:03 fc2/1
vfc795    1000 0x636217 20:00:00:25:b5:10:a1:02 20:00:00:25:b5:10:c1:01 fc2/1
vfc797    1000 0x636218 20:00:00:25:b5:10:a1:03 20:00:00:25:b5:10:c1:02 fc2/1
vfc805    1000 0x636216 20:00:00:25:b5:10:a1:04 20:00:00:25:b5:10:c1:04 fc2/1
UCSM Version is 2.1(3a)
adapter 1/1/1 # connect
adapter 1/1/1 (top):1# attach-fls
adapter 1/1/1 (fls):1# vnic
vnic ecpu type state   lif
8    1    fc   active  5
9    2    fc   active  6
adapter 1/1/1 (fls):2# login 8
lifid: 5
  ID   PORTNAME                 NODENAME                 FID
adapter 1/1/1 (fls):3# lunmap 8
adapter 1/1/1 (fls):4# lunlist 8
% Command not found
adapter 1/1/1 (fls):5# login 9
lifid: 6
  ID   PORTNAME                 NODENAME                 FID
adapter 1/1/1 (fls):6# lunmap 9
adapter 1/1/1 (fls):7#
No output at login doesn't sound good. Is this a fault of PLOGI didn't done correct? lunlist command not found is strange. Did this commend only works after successful login?
Kind Regards
Bastian