Determining the fibre-channel port speed

You must determine the fibre-channel port speed for several actions. You can determine the fibre-channel port speed using the SAN Volume Controller Console, the CLI, or from the front panel.

Viewing the fibre-channel port speed from the SAN Volume Controller Console

You can view the fabric speed for the cluster from the View Cluster Properties panel.

This task assumes that you have already launched the SAN Volume Controller Console.

Perform the following steps to view the fibre-channel port speed:
  1. Click Manage Cluster > View Cluster Properties in the portfolio. The Viewing General Properties panel is displayed.
  2. Click the General tab to display the general properties, including the port speed.
  3. Click Close to close the panel.

Determining the fibre-channel port speed from the CLI

If the node is in a cluster that is operational, you can determine the fibre-channel port speed from the cluster vital product data.

To view the fibre-channel port speed of a cluster, issue the following command:

svcinfo lscluster -delim : cluster1

The following output is an example of what you might see. The fibre-channel port speed is shown in bold.
id:cluster1
name:rc-cluster-20
location:local partnership:
bandwidth:
cluster_IP_address:9.71.50.32
cluster_service_IP_address:9.71.50.183
total_mdisk_capacity:2976.9GB
space_in_mdisk_grps::2976.9GB
space_allocated to vdisks:147.2GB
total_free_space:2828.7GB
statistics_status:on
statistics_frequency:15
required_memory:8192
cluster_locale:en_US 
SNMP_setting:none 
SNMP_community:
SNMP_server_IP_address:[0.0.0.0]:23
subnet_mask:255.255.254.0
default_gateway:9.71.50.1
time_zone:522
UTC email_setting:none
email_id: 
code_level:4.1.0.12 (build 5.13.0610240000)
FC_port_speed:2Gb
console_IP:9.71.49.176:9080
id_alias:cluster1
gm_link_tolerance:300
gm_inter_cluster_delay_simulation:0
gm_intra_cluster_delay_simulation:0
email_server:8.53.26.131
email_server_port:25
email_reply:manager@mycompany.com
email_contact:manager
email_contact_primary:01202 123456
email_contact_alternate:44-212-786543-4455 
email_contact_location:city 
email_state:running 
email_user_count:2 
inventory_mail_interval:0 
cluster_IP_address_6: 
cluster_service_IP_address_6: 
prefix_6: 
default_gateway_6: 
total_vdiskcopy_capacity:40.00GB
total_used_capacity:22.50GB 
total_overallocation:67 
total_vdisk_capacity:30.00GB

Determining the fibre-channel port speed from the front panel

Perform the following steps from the front panel to determine the fibre-channel port speed:

  1. Select any fibre-channel port from the front panel.
  2. Press and hold Down.
  3. Press and release Select.
  4. Release Down.
  5. Press Select again to cancel the text display or wait 60 seconds and the text display cancels itself.
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