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Luns not visible on the host end due to no proper zoning

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9.x
  • Hyper-v host
  • VMware ESXi
  • RHEL 
  • Windows
  • FCP

Issue

  • Newly created LUNs are not visible on the host end.
  • Unable to reconnect to LUNs after fibre channel switch change
  • On the storage end, the luns could be seen online and mapped to the host
  • fcp ping-igroup show displays zone-info-not-available and or not-zoned

cs1::> vserver fcp ping-igroup show -node ncfasndxxx|ncfasndxxx                          
          Igroup                     Logical    Node      Ping     Extended
Vserver   Name        WWPN           Interface  Name      Status   Status
--------- ----------- -------------- ---------- --------- -------- -----------
n_xxx
          nxx3   10:00:00:10:9b:a3:xx:xx ncfasndxxx_fc_lif_1_1 ncfasndxxx zone-info-not-available -
          nxx3   10:00:00:10:9b:a3:xx:xx ncfasndxxx_fc_lif_2_1 ncfasndxxx zone-info-not-available -
          nxx3   10:00:00:10:9b:a3:xx:xx ncfasndxxx_fc_lif_1_1 ncfasndxxx zone-info-not-available -

cs1::> vserver fcp ping-igroup show -node ncfasndxxx|ncfasndxxx                          
          Igroup                     Logical    Node      Ping     Extended
Vserver   Name        WWPN           Interface  Name      Status   Status
--------- ----------- -------------- ---------- --------- -------- -----------
n_xxx
          nxx3   10:00:00:10:9b:a3:xx:xx ncfasndxxx_fc_lif_1_1 ncfasndxxx not-zoned -
          nxx3   10:00:00:10:9b:a3:xx:xx ncfasndxxx_fc_lif_2_1 ncfasndxxx not-zoned -
          nxx3   10:00:00:10:9b:a3:xx:xx ncfasndxxx_fc_lif_1_1 ncfasndxxx not-zoned -

  • Verify igroup show -v command output and the initiator login status.

ncfasclxxx::> igroup show nxx3-v
          Vserver Name: n_xxx
           Igroup Name: nxx3
              Protocol: fcp
               OS Type: vmware
Portset Binding Igroup: fc_pset_1
           Igroup UUID: fc89xxx4-5xx7-1xxc-9xx5-00a098d6xxxx
                  ALUA: true
            Initiators: 10:00:00:90:fa:aa:xx:xx (not logged in)
10:00:00:90:fa:aa:xx:xx (not logged in)

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