Thursday, August 6, 2009

Fabric issues

I wonder if anyone's got the hang of Lefthand Networks VSA.
Not as simple to configure like Netapp or a Clariion in my opinion.
The thing has just too many areas to look at for getting stuff done.
I figure it's still better to use the VSA ,than the aging CX-320 for ISCSI.
Don't want to do too much to that old beast , its too cranky.

The other thing that cranky is our fabric.

I had shutdown our switches before a scheduled power maintenance on Sat.
On the brocades I ran a normal sysshutdown.
Come Monday after power them on, and this switch is acting all weird, the web interface doesn't work and
even a "zone show" results in "Fabric busy try again later" ??
Rebooted it , still the same issue .
I had to perform a persistent disable of the switch , fast boot it , then re-enable config to get it to work.
Dunno what was the RCA , I guess I need someone with a BCFP to analyse the supportshow dump for me (Or I should get one myself)

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