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1. The document defines various port types used in Fibre Channel networks including U_Port, F_Port, E_Port, and N_Port. 2. It provides an overview of Fibre Channel including that it is a high-speed network technology used for storage area networks and operates as a switched fabric. 3. The document discusses port commissioning which allows automated decommissioning and recommissioning of E_Ports and F_Ports through coordination between switches.

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My Document 1.U - Port (Universal Port) :-A Port Waiting To Become Another Port Type 2. F - Port

1. The document defines various port types used in Fibre Channel networks including U_Port, F_Port, E_Port, and N_Port. 2. It provides an overview of Fibre Channel including that it is a high-speed network technology used for storage area networks and operates as a switched fabric. 3. The document discusses port commissioning which allows automated decommissioning and recommissioning of E_Ports and F_Ports through coordination between switches.

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1.U_Port (Universal port) :- A port waiting to become another port type

2. F_port:-

The Fabric port (F_Port) within a Fibre Channel fabric switch that is
used to connect an N_Port to a switch. F_Ports are intermediate ports in virtual
point-to-point links between end ports and can only be attached to N_Ports

3.E_port:-

A Fibre Channel Expansion port(E_Port) used as an interswitch


expansion port to connect to another Fibre Channel switch or bridge device
through an interswitch link. E_Ports can attach only to other E_Ports.

4. N_Port (Node port) :- An N_Port is typically an HBA port that connects to a


switch's F_Port or another N_Port. Nx_Port communicating through a PN_Port
that is not operating a Loop Port State Machine.

5 .Fibre Channel:-

Fibre Channel(FC), is a high-speed network technology(commonly


running at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 128 gigabit per second rates) providing in-
order, lossless delivery of raw block data, primarily used to connect computer
data storage to servers.

Fibre Channel is mainly used in storage area networks (SAN) in


commercial data centers. Fibre Channel networks form a switched fabric
because they operate in unison as one big switch.

Fibre Channel typically runs on optical fiber cables within and between
data centers, but can also run on copper cabling.
Most block storage runs over Fibre Channel Fabrics and supports many
upper level protocols. Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is a transport protocol that
predominantly transports SCSI commands over Fibre Channel networks.

Mainframe computers run the FICON command set over Fibre Channel
because of its high reliability and throughput. Fibre Channel can be used to
transport data from storage systems that use solid-state flash memory storage
medium by transporting NVMe protocol commands.

Fibre Channel does not follow the OSI model layering and is split into five
layers:

● FC-4 – Protocol-mapping layer, in which upper level protocols such


as NVMe, SCSI, IP or FICON, are encapsulated into Information
Units (IUs) for delivery to FC-2. Current FC-4s include FCP-4, FC-
SB-5, and FC-NVMe.
● FC-3 – Common services layer, a thin layer that could eventually
implement functions like encryption or RAID redundancy algorithms;
multiport connections;
● FC-2 – Signaling Protocol, defined by the Fibre Channel Framing and
Signaling 4 (FC-FS-5) standard, consists of the low level Fibre
Channel protocols; port to port connections;
● FC-1 – Transmission Protocol, which implements line coding of
signals;
● FC-0 – PHY, includes cabling, connectors etc.;

HBA:- Fibre Channel HBAs, as well as CNAs, are available for all major open
systems, computer architectures, and buses, including PCI and SBus. Some are
OS dependent. Each HBA has a unique World Wide Name (WWN), which is
similar to an Ethernet MAC address in that it uses an Organizationally Unique
Identifier (OUI) assigned by the IEEE.WWNs are longer (8 bytes).

There are two types of WWNs on a HBA;


1. node WWN (WWNN), which can be shared by some or all ports of a
device, and
2. port WWN (WWPN), which is necessarily unique to each port.
Port commissioning:-
➢ Port commissioning is supported on all FICON and non-FICON devices
running Fabric OS 7.1.0 or later, whereas F_Port commissioning is
supported only on FICON devices.
➢ Port commissioning provides an automated mechanism to remove an
E_Port or F_Port from use (decommission) and to put it back in use
(recommission).
➢ Port commissioning identifies the target port and communicates the
intention to decommission or recommission the port to those systems
within the fabric affected by the action. Each affected system can agree or
disagree with the action, and these responses are automatically collected
before a port is decommissioned or recommissioned.
➢ Note the following port commissioning restrictions:
• The local switch and the remote switch on the other end of the E_Port or
F_Port must both be running Fabric OS 7.1.0 or later.
• Port commissioning is not supported on links configured for encryption
or compression.
• Port commissioning is not supported on ports with dense wavelength
division multiplexing (DWDM), coarse wavelength division multiplexing
(CWDM), or time-division multiplexing (TDM).
• E_Port commissioning requires that the lossless feature be enabled on
both the local switch and the remote switch.
• Fabric tracking must be enabled to maintain the decommissioned port
details ( port type, device port WWN, and so on). Do not accept changes
in the Management application client.

Configuring port commissioning:- The following steps provide an


overview of configuring port commissioning.
1. Make sure that you meet the z/OS (mainframe operating system)
requirements. You must meet the following requirements to configure port
decommissioning and recommissioning through the Management application:
• The z/OS mainframe operating system must be running 1.12 or later to
support z/OS CIM and port decommissioning.
• A working CIMOM server must be on each logical partition (LPAR) that
participates in port decommissioning.
2. Register each CIMOM server within the fabric affected by the action. For
instructions, Before you can decommission or recommission an F_Port, you
must register the CIMOM servers within the fabric affected by the action.
Registering a CIMOM server
CIMOM (Common Information Model Object Manager)
To register a CIMOM server, obtain the CIMOM server system and its
credentials from the CIMOM server administrator and the authorized user ID
from the RACF administrator.
1. Select Configure > Port Commissioning > Setup. The Port
Commissioning Setup dialog box displays.
Port Commissioning Setup dialog box:-

2. Enter the IP address (IPv4 or IPv6 format) or host name of the CIMOM
server in the Network Address field.
3. (Optional) Enter a description of the CIMOM server in the Description field.
The description cannot exceed 1024 characters.
4. Enter the CIMOM port number for the CIMOM server in the CIMOM Port
field. The default port number is 5989.
5. Enter the namespace of the CIM_FCPort in the Namespace field. The default
namespace is root/cimv2.
6. (Optional) Enter a user identifier for the CIMOM server in the User ID field.
The credentials user identifier cannot exceed 128 characters.
7. (Optional) Enter a password in the Password field. The password cannot
exceed 512 characters.
8. Click the right arrow button to add the new CIMOM server and credentials
to the Systems List. The application validates the mandatory fields.
CIMOM servers
9. Select the new CIMOM server in the Systems List, and click Test to check
connectivity. When testing is complete, the updated status displays in the Status
column of the Systems List for the selected CIMOM server.
10. Click OK to save your work and save the CIMOM server details in the
database.

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