Not able to detect the Tape Drives & Changer in FAS3250 (ONTAP 8.1.3 7 Mode)

BHAVEN2420 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:50:59 GMT

Hi All,

I have zoned NetApp FC adapter and assigned VTL/drives to it however I am not able to detect it on NetApp. Can someone point out what is going wrong?

etc$\tape_config folder has the TCF file for IBM LTO 3 drives.

Here is the info on assigned VTL MC (L180) and Drives (IBM LTO 3)

-- I can see Netapp port login on DataDomain

NETAPP01_0c NETAPP01_0c Online 50:0a:09:80:03:56:8e:d8 50:0a:09:80:03:56:8e:d8 0a

Online 50:0a:09:80:03:56:8e:d8 50:0a:09:80:03:56:8e:d8 0b

-- Assigned the VTL/drives to the above HBA card of NetApp

Group: NETAPP01_0c

Initiators:

Initiator Alias Initiator WWPN

--------------- -----------------------

NETAPP01_0c 50:0a:09:80:03:56:8e:d8

--------------- -----------------------

Devices:

Device Name LUN Primary Ports Secondary Ports In-use Ports

------------------------------ --- ------------- --------------- ------------

NETAPP01VTL01 changer 0 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 1 1 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 2 2 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 3 3 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 4 4 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 5 5 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 6 6 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 7 7 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 8 8 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 9 9 0a none 0a

NETAPP01VTL01 drive 10 10 0a none 0a

------------------------------ --- ------------- --------------- ------------

Slot: 0c

Description: Fibre Channel Host Adapter 0c (QLogic 2432 rev. 2)

Firmware Rev: 5.4.100

FC Node Name: 5:00a:098003:568ed8

FC Port Name: 5:00a:098003:568ed8

FC Packet Size: 2048

Link Data Rate: 4 Gbit

SRAM Parity: Yes

External GBIC: No

State: Enabled

In Use: Yes

Redundant: No

NETAPP01> fcadmin config

Local

Adapter Type State Status

---------------------------------------------------

0c initiator CONFIGURED. online

0d initiator CONFIGURED. online

(( disabled the SAN switch port where 0c is connected ))

NETAPP01> Tue Jun 24 12:05:15 SGT [NETAPP01:fci.link.break:error]: Link break detected on Fibre Channel adapter 0c.

Tue Jun 24 12:05:46 SGT [NETAPP01:fci.link.error:error]: Could not recover link on Fibre Channel adapter 0c after 30 seconds. Offlining the adapter.

NETAPP01> ndmpd status

ndmpd OFF.

No ndmpd sessions active.

NETAPP01> ndmpd on

NETAPP01>

NETAPP01> ndmpd version

ndmpd highest version set to: 4

NETAPP01>

NETAPP01> date

Tue Jun 24 12:08:21 SGT 2014

(( enabled the SAN switch port where 0c is connected ))

NETAPP01> Tue Jun 24 12:08:34 SGT [NETAPP01:fci.adapter.link.online:info]: Fibre Channel adapter 0c link online.

Tue Jun 24 12:08:34 SGT [NETAPP01:fci.adapter.online:info]: Fibre Channel adapter 0c is now online.

NETAPP01> sysconfig -m

No medium changers present on system.

NETAPP01> sysconfig -t

No tape drives present on system.

NETAPP01>

Re: Not able to detect the Tape Drives & Changer in FAS3250 (ONTAP 8.1.3 7 Mode)

D_SITTA_SINERGY — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:21:22 GMT

excuse me did you resolve the issue? We also have this problem wit fas3250 7-mode 8.1.4 Metro cluster. After every powercycle of the Quantum I40 tape library zoned in SAN with the filer on port 3c (Initiator) , then sysconfig -t show the tape drives correctly but sysconfig -m or storage show mc output "No medium changer present on the system"

NetApp & brocade help us in trobleshooting changing Tape library from Loop , Auto NL Auto LN and Point to Point in SAN, we also changed the tape drive & upgraded Qauntum I40 firmware but always the same issue. Changing FC patch cable & SAN switch port does not resolve the issu. We are still investigating.

if we do a set of this command on both the filers the it works: but why before dataontap upgrade we did'not have this issue?

storage disable adapter 3c

storage enalbe adapter 3c

and the sysconfig -m show the media changer.

???

Thanks

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