Monday, September 3, 2018

Simple SAN Switch Brocade How to


0. Show switch status
>switchshow
1. Show version
>version

2. Show current configuration
>cfgshow

Defined configuration:
 cfg: VMWARE51b
ESX_Hosts_EMC; ESX_Hosts_HDS; ESX_Hosts_01; ESX_Hosts_02;
ESX_Hosts_03; ESX_Hosts_04; ESX_Hosts_05; ESX_Hosts_01_EMC;
ESX_Hosts_02_EMC; ESX_Hosts_03_EMC; ESX_Hosts_04_EMC;
ESX_Hosts_05_EMC; ESX_Hosts_UCS
 zone: ESX_Hosts_01
ESX_01; HDS_NIN_Port_1D; Hitachi_0B; Hitachi_1B
 zone: ESX_Hosts_01_EMC
ESX_01; EMC_A1; EMC_B1
 zone: ESX_Hosts_EMC
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
.
.

zone: ESX_Hosts_UCS
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
.

3. Show configured zone
>zoneshow

4. Create alias
>alicreate “ESX_Hosts_04”, “xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx″

To verify run command, alishow “ESX_Hosts_04” and so on.

5. Create Zone
>zonecreate “zone1”, “HostPort1; StoragePort1”

To verify run command, zoneshow “zone1” and so on.


6. Create configuration

> cfgcreate "VMWARE51b", "zone1;zone2"

7.Save configuration
>cfgsave

8.Enable configuration
> cfgenable "VMWARE51b"