Hi,
Yes, UTA2 do not support direct connection of DS14 because they do not support FC-AL. They are supported in FMC though for connection to backend switches and
that is what we have here.
It is clear that setting HBA to 8G won’t make DS14 faster. Still customer has also ATTO 6500N and any future storage extension will go over ATTO as well so
it is still beneficial to use full available speed.
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With best regards
Andrei
Borzenkov
Senior system engineer
FTS WEMEAI RUC RU SC TMS FOS
FUJITSU
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From: gene [mailto:genec220@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2016 8:51 PM
To: 'Tim McCarthy'; Borzenkov, Andrei
Subject: RE: Frame discards on Brocade with 7-Mode FMC using 8G HBA and DS14
Just making sure you got this since my post bounced from toasters…
<assuming you were talking about DS14 connections and not FC SAN targets>
The DS14 shelves are supported on the UTA2 ports. You would need FC HBAs such as the X1132, or X2054.
“The FAS80x0 onboard UTA2 ports and X1143A UTA2 ports are not supported for connectivity to DS14 shelves. To connect to DS14 shelves, use the X1132A-R6 or X2054A-R6
Fibre Channel adapters.”
Also, unless your complete path is 8Gb, you won’t get the 8Gb. The 8Gb links would auto-negotiate down to 4Gb. Shouldn’t error though.
You won’t get any better perf out of the DS14’s by setting the path links to 8Gb either since the fastest the DS14MK4 can run is 4Gb.
{good seeing you, although a mere glance, at Insight, Tim. I continue to learn from your posts. Hope you are well.}
Good luck,
gene
From: gene [mailto:genec220@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2016 11:34 AM
To: 'Tim McCarthy'; NGC-andrei.borzenkov-ts.fujitsu.com; NGC-andrei.borzenkov-ts.fujitsu.com
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: RE: Frame discards on Brocade with 7-Mode FMC using 8G HBA and DS14
Hi Andrei, I do not want to assume even though you say “backend switches” so are you trying to use the UTA2 ports to connect to the DS14’s or as FC SAN target
ports?
gene
From:
toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net]
On Behalf Of Tim McCarthy
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2016 7:47 AM
To: NGC-andrei.borzenkov-ts.fujitsu.com; NGC-andrei.borzenkov-ts.fujitsu.com
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: Re: Frame discards on Brocade with 7-Mode FMC using 8G HBA and DS14
You would not believe the silly stuff I have seen customers do.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:40 AM -0400, "andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com" <andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com>
wrote:
What FC ports are you using on the FAS8040 (onboard/PCIe Card)?
[Borzenkov, Andrei] onboard
how about the sysconfig -a for the FC ports involved (not the whole thing!)?
[Borzenkov, Andrei]
slot 0: FC Host Adapter 0e (QLogic 8324 rev. 2, N-port, <UP>)
Firmware rev: 7.5.0
Host Port Id: 0x10100
FC Node Name: 5:00a:098003:8826d0
FC Port Name: 5:00a:098003:8826d0
SFP Vendor: AVAGO
SFP Part Number: AFBR-57F5MZ-NA1
SFP Serial Number: AC1609J00D5
SFP Capabilities: 4, 8 or 16 Gbit
Others are the same
Do you have the correct SFP+s in the FAS8040?
[Borzenkov, Andrei] Whatever NetApp ships with FAS8040.
Where did they come from?
[Borzenkov, Andrei] NetApp
Did you take them from the FAS3140 (X6539 -> 4Gb)?
[Borzenkov, Andrei] Of course, not. You seriously expect link to come up at 8G with 4G SFPs?
(if so, those are likely 4Gb)
The supported ones on the FAS8040 are X6596->16Gb
[Borzenkov, Andrei] Yes, I know.
Of course, if you are using a PCIe crad, that would be different too.
--tmac
Tim McCarthy, Principal Consultant
NetApp Candidate ID: NETAPP00041276
FlexPod Design: Oct 2015 - Jan 2018, S0N62WE1BMVEYF3M
FlexPod Implementation: Oct 2015 - Jan 2018, JH3QJT4KLEQ41HPH
RHCE6 110-107-141
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:32 AM,
andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com <andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
This weekend I did head swap from FAS3140 to FAS8040 in 7-Mode FMC. Storage is DS14mk4 and one DS2246 that was added later. Backend switches are Brocade 300 so we tried to change HBA ports from 4G to 8G hoping to boost overall performance.
But almost immediately I observed intermittent
Sat Oct 1 23:00:08 YEKT [netapp2:cf.fsm.takeoverOfPartnerDisabled:error]: Failover monitor: takeover of netapp1 disabled (status of backup mailbox is uncertain).
Sat Oct 1 23:00:14 YEKT [netapp2:cf.fsm.takeoverOfPartnerEnabled:notice]: Failover monitor: takeover of netapp1 enabled
On both heads. There was no load, all applications were still stopped at this point. There were no other errors visible in logs.
Looking on switches, the only errors reported for ports were c3 discards. They were most frequent on DS14 ports, but also happened for HBA and even ATTO ports (1 and 13 in this example). Statistic is collected several minutes after resetting counters.
netapp2_fcsw1:admin> porterrshow
frames enc crc crc too too bad enc disc link loss loss frjt fbsy c3timeout
tx rx in err g_eof shrt long eof out c3 fail sync sig tx rx
=======================================================================================================================
0: 124.5k 90.9k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1: 327.5k 290.8k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
2: 278.4k 244.0k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3: 27.0k 29.1k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 102
4: 426.5k 474.3k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 324 0 0 0 0 0 324 0
5: 41.9k 48.9k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 120 0 0 0 0 0 0 120
6: 98.8k 109.8k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
7: 111.4k 133.1k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9: 56.2k 64.0k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10: 13.4k 14.9k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 52
11: 46.4k 50.4k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13: 22.0k 23.8k 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 38
14: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
I could not find any best practice or recommendation regarding port speeds in such configuration (actually, documentation recommends setting port speed to maximum supported by connected device, which in this case means 8G). After forcing HBA back to 4G the
above messages and c3 discards went away.
So I'm looking for practical experience in this area. May be there are some settings we missed. Switches are running 7.0.2b (minimal version matching IMT). Shelf firmware is the latest. Data ONTAP is 8.2.4P4.
---
With best regards
Andrei Borzenkov
Senior system engineer
FTS WEMEAI RUC RU SC TMS FOS
FUJITSU
Zemlyanoy Val Street, 9, 105 064 Moscow, Russian Federation
Tel.: +7 495 730 62 20 ( reception)
Mob.: +7 916 678 7208
Fax: +7 495 730 62 14
E-mail: Andrei.Borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com
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