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    This document provides procedures for configuring device aliases on Cisco SAN switches at an IBM data center for Bharti Tele Venture Ltd. It includes instructions for logging into the SAN switch, creating an alias database and aliases, committing and distributing the aliases, and validating the configuration by checking that host port world wide names are mapped to the correct device names.

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    IBM Global

    Services

    Data Center

    DR SAN Administration Procedures Manual

    IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.

    BHARTI Tele Venture Ltd.

    Cisco SAN Switch Device-alias Configuration Ver 0.1

    Document Owner: Storage Team

    Document Version: 0.1

    530531836.doc BHARTI-IBM Confidential Page 1 of 5


    Last Update on 7/4/2021
    IBM Global Services
    Data Center Procedures Manual

    Table of Content……....................................................2
    Cisco SAN Switch Adm_4_DC1. Document Statistics.......................................3
    Cisco SAN Switch Adm_4_DC2. Revision History.............................................3
    Cisco SAN Switch Adm_4_DC3. Document Approvers.....................................3

    Cisco SAN Switch Adm_4_Work Instructions....4


    Cisco SAN Switch Device-alias Configuration Steps...................................…...4

    Check-list.................................................................5
    Successful Criteria for Device-alias configuration..............................................5

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    Data Center Procedures Manual

    Cisco SAN Switch DC1. Document Statistics

    IBM SOP Cisco SAN Switch Device-


    alias configuration
    Revision history 1.1 / 1.2
    Issued March-12-2015
    Document Owner Pradeep Kumar
    Document Reviewer Yadwinder s sohal
    Document Functional Storage Team

    Document Approver Akhil Mehrotra

    Cisco SAN Switch DC2. Revision History

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    Data Center Procedures Manual

    Cisco SAN Switch Work Instructions


    Cisco SAN Switch Device-alias Configuration
    Phase S/N Steps Command Remarks/Cautions
    Login to Cisco SAN Select the interface ports
    1. Switch with Admin user before configuring VSAN
    name and Password
    And VSAN ID
    through CLI

    2. Step 1 switch# config t Enters configuration mode

    Configures the database


    3. Step 2 switch(config)# device-alias database for a device-alias
    SAN Switch switch(config-device-alias-db)#
    configuration
    backup switch(config-device-alias-db)# device-alias name
    “Name” pwwn “pWWN”
    Configures an alias name
    4. Step 3 Example:- that maps the pwwn of the
    switch(config-device-alias-db)# device-alias name host adapter
    CNDAEAI2APZP04_FCS2 pwwn 21:01:00:e0:8b:3d:9f:b2
    switch(config-device-alias-db)# exit

    5. Commit the alias name


    Step 4 switch(config)# device-alias commit
    Distrbute the alias name
    6. Step 5 switch(config)# device-alias distrbute over the SAN Network
    topology

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    Data Center Procedures Manual

    Check-list
    Cisco SAN Switch Checklist
    S/N Steps Yes No

    1. Check the device alias name that maps the pwwn of the host adapter Match the host pwwn & device
    name & close

    Successful Criteria for SAN Switch Device –alias Configuration


    S/N Steps Check the Configuration in SAN Switch

    switch# show flogi database


    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1 Step1 INTERFACE VSAN FCID PORT NAME NODE NAME
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    fc1/24 10 0x0d0500 21:01:00:e0:8b:3d:9f:b2 20:01:00:e0:8b:3d:9f:b2
    [CNDAEAI2APZP04_FCS2]

    Total number of flogi = 1.

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    Last Update on 7/4/2021

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