Setting up zoning for theLenovo Converged System

Learn how to set up zoning for your Lenovo Converged System.

Aliases are used for each component in the zoning configuration. The aliases use naming conventions to represent the worldwide port names (WWPNs) associated with the components.

There are two main categories in the SAN zoning. Different manufacturers call them different names but they are essentially the same thing:

The zone configuration or zone set
The individual zones

A zone set or zone configuration consists of one or more zones. Each zone needs a name along with the zone set (zone configuration). There is one zone set (zone configuration) name for the entire SAN. The name for the zone set for Lenovo Converged System is “SWITCHxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”, where the x’s refer to the World Wide Name (WWN) for the switch. Each node will have its own zone with the zone set or zone configuration.

Here is an example of the zoning. The names that are used do not match the names in your configuration, but are representative of what you might see. First, is a table of alias names. In Table 1, SNXXXXXXX is the serial number of the Storwize V7000 system and SNYYYYYYY is the serial number of the Storwize V7000 node.

Table 1. Port and alias names.
Port	Alias name
V7000 CAN 1 port 1	SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT1
V7000 CAN 1 port 2	SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT 2
V7000 CAN 1 port 3	SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT3
V7000 CAN 1 port 4	SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT 4
V7000 CAN 2 port 1	SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT 1
V7000 CAN 2 port 2	SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT 2
V7000 CAN 2 port 3	SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT 3
V7000 CAN 2 port 4	SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT 4
Node 1 HBA 1 port 0	SNYYYYYYY_HBA1_PORT1
Node 1 HBA 1 port 1	SNYYYYYYY_HBA1_PORT2
Node 1 HBA 2 port 0	SNYYYYYYY_HBA2_PORT1
Node 1 HBA 2 port 1	SNYYYYYYY_HBA2_PORT2

Next, is an example of a zone for a Storwize V7000 and a Lenovo System x compute node with the VMware ESXi Hypervisor (xHyp1) as the host.

Zone: SN10XXXXX_xHyp1:

SN10XXXXX_xHyp1 SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT1 associated with V7000 WWPN AB:CD:EF:12:34:56:78:90

SN10XXXXX_xHyp1 SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT1 associated with V7000 WWPN AB:CD:EF:12:34:56:78:90

SN10XXXXX_xHyp1 SN10XXXXX_HBA1_PORT1 associated with ESXi WWPN AB:CD:EF:12:34:56:78:90

Notice that only one host bus adapter (HBA) port is configured since this zone is configured on a single Fibre Channel switch that is mapped to the one HBA port on the compute node.

The second HBA port is mapped to a second switch and thus a different zone. In this case, the port number becomes 2.

See Table 2 for an example of an X-Architecture compute node without the scalable switches (only the Flex System FC3171 8 Gb SAN switches are present).

Table 2. Example of an X-Architecture compute node
Primary node	Zone name	Members
2S – Switch 1	SN10XXXXX_xHyp1	SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT1 SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT1 SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT3 SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT3 SN10XXXXX_HBA1_PORT1
2S – Switch 2	SN10XXXXX_xHyp1	SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT2 SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT2 SNXXXXXXX_NODE1_PORT4 SNXXXXXXX_NODE2_PORT4 SN10XXXXX_HBA1_PORT2