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'Single Image' Clusters with same PWWN's?

rsundar
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Gurus,

We have our client running a bunch of NetApps FAS3070 in single image mode (as clustered pairs).

But in one of the pairs, we noticed that they have adapters which share the same Node WWN (which is expected), but I also see that the port WWN's are the **same** for both the Filers. How could this be? I saw a simillar complaint by another person on a VMWare forum. By having same Port WWN's for the both the filersin a cluster, wont it cause confusion at the OS level (OS Handles that is), as to where the disks really are?

Also note that both filers have all ports as local, with parner-adapter 'none'. Is this setup even valid?

Please explain?

Thanks

Sundar Ramamoorthy

FC Adapter Information on Filer 1

<results status="passed">
        <fcp-config-adapters>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0c</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:81:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>6375955</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>online</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0d</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:82:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>0</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>link not connected</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0a</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:83:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>6441491</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>online</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0b</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:84:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>0</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>link not connected</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
        </fcp-config-adapters>
</results>

FC Adapter Information on Filer 2

<results status="passed">
        <fcp-config-adapters>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0c</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:81:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>6821888</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>online</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0d</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:82:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>6822912</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>online</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0a</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:83:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>6623251</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>online</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
                <fcp-config-adapter-info>
                        <adapter>0b</adapter>
                        <node-name>50:0a:09:80:87:89:68:1d</node-name>
                        <port-name>50:0a:09:84:97:89:68:1d</port-name>
                        <port-address>6644499</port-address>
                        <adapter-type>Local</adapter-type>
                        <media-type>auto</media-type>
                        <partner-adapter>None</partner-adapter>
                        <state>online</state>
                        <standby>false</standby>
                        <speed>auto</speed>
                </fcp-config-adapter-info>
        </fcp-config-adapters>
</results>
3 REPLIES 3

anthonyfeigl
3,704 Views

Hey Sundar,

I am going to guess.... But I think that maybe the shared loop for the disk connections.

Is this a Metrocluster?

Anthony Feigl

rsundar
3,703 Views

This not a metro cluster, and they have different LUNs on each of the Filer (ie.they are not mirrored).

I see simillar problems discussed here

http://communities.netapp.com/message/5124#5124Re: 'Single Image' Clusters with same PWWN's?

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/94172

In each case, the concise reason for this pheomenon is not explained clearly. It is however clear that this is wrong.

habibali
3,703 Views

Checkout this bug from netapp;

Bug ID268320
TitleWWPN's are identical on both heads of a single_image cluster
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