Cisco UCS Configuration Guide for vSphere – Part 4 – SAN

This is part 4 of the Cisco UCS Configuration Guide, covering the creation of Cisco UCS SAN policies.

Eight part series, describing how to configure a Cisco UCS from start to finish for a vSphere deployment:

• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 1 – Overview
• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 2 – Equipment
• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 3 – LAN
• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 4 – SAN
• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 5 – Server
• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 6 – Admin
• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 7 – Firmware Upgrade
• Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 8 – ESXi Driver Upgrade

The UCS Manager SAN configuration has five areas: SAN Cloud, Storage Cloud, Policies and Pools.  The diagram below shows the breakdown of those areas.

Configure SAN Policies

Before you begin, you will need the following:

• Three Blocks of WWN Addresses for the nodes and virtual HBAs, one for Fabric A and one for Fabric B – for this exercise the ranges 20:00:00:25:B5:71:00:00 – 20:00:00:25:B5:71:00:63, 20:00:00:25:B5:73:1A:00 – 20:00:00:25:B5:73:1A:63 and 20:00:00:25:B5:73:1B:00 – 20:00:00:25:B5:73:1B:63 will be used.
• Identify the FC Uplinks to SAN Fabrics A and B, in this example they are 1/27.
• WWPNs of your Storage Array Service Processor ports.

To configure the Cisco UCS SAN Policies, you need to:

1. Access the “SAN” tab of the UCS Manager and expand the “SAN Cloud”.  Then select VSANs and right mouse click “Create VSAN”.

2. Configure two VSANs with the following settings.

3. From “SAN Cloud”, select “Fabric A” and then “Uplink FC Interfaces”.

 

4. Configure the FC Uplinks with the following settings.

5. From the “Pools” object select “WWNN Pools”.

6. Create a WWNN Pool with the following settings.

7. From the “Pools” object select “WWPN Pools”.

8. Create two WWPN Pools with the following settings.

9. From the “Policies” object, select “vHBA Templates”.

10. Create two vHBA templates with the following settings.

11. From the “Policies” object, select “Storage Connection Policies”.

12. Create Storage Connection Policies with the following settings.

13.This completes the SAN Policy configuration, proceed to Part 5 to configure the Server policies.