multiple vsans under one zone

[bwindle66]

have a requirement for multiple vsans under the same zone. I can create these but the netapp seems to only get applied to the first vsan I apply it to.

Is it something to work around with npiv? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[dynamoxxx · Accepted solution]

Brian,

can you provide more detail of what you are trying to do ? A port can be a member of only one VSAN, if you need to establish connectivity between two VSANs without merging them you need to use IVR.

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[bwindle66]

thanks for the reply, i'll try to explain more below/

best as I can tell you is I need to have the netapp be a member of more than one vsan when I am building my zones. so that I have one customer per vsan. as you stated though a port can only be a member of one vsan.

what I don't get is that I can add vsans to the vfc which to me means I should be able to assign the netapp to any vsan I say. such as below. but what happens is that once the netapp is assigned to a new vsan I lose the storage in the other zones.

possibly as you stated I just need to establish connectivity between vsans. let me check out IVR.

interface vfc17

  bind interface port-channel27

  switchport trunk allowed vsan 1101

  switchport trunk allowed vsan add 1103

  no shutdown

[dynamoxxx]

it's not like in Ethernet world where you can tag multiple VLANs to one port, in FC world one port = one VSAN. Do you have MDS switches in your fabric or is it all Nexus ? I don't remember if Nexus alone supports IVR.

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[bwindle66]

all nexus, was just looking at the switch and there is no ivr feature to be enabled, nor in the cli

[dynamoxxx]

i think IVR is supported with Nexus 7k but not 5k

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