Overview

The Blades and Connectivity section covers important information found in Scalar i2000 snapshot I/O Blade dump files (supportDump.log and sys_info.log). With this information, a field engineer will be able to describe the Fibre Channel topology of the customer environment as it pertains to an advanced Scalar i2000.

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Contents

File Naming Conventions

• How many I/O blades are in the library, and are they 6404s or 7404s?
• Which supportDump file in the snapshot corresponds to which blade?How many I/O blades are in the library, and are they 6404s or 7404s? 

Fiber Connectivity

• Finding the physical connectivity status of each blade's six FC ports.
• Finding the error statistics for each port.

Device Connectivity

• What physical and logical devices are attached to or present on each blade?
• What physical and logical devices are available for presentation to the SAN from each target port?

Host Connectivity

• What hosts (HBAs) are connected to each blade?
• Which port(s) (FCAL-1 or FCAL-2) does each HBA connect to, if connected at the time of the snapshot?
• What devices (physical and logical) are presented to each HBA from the blade?

loggerDump Event Log

• Fibre Channel link and error event log. This topic is in development.  

What's Next...

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