Ports report

System Administrator Guide for VSP 5000 Series

Version
90-08-8x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-98RD9009-13

The following figure shows an example of a Ports report. The Ports report includes several more columns of information that are described below but not shown here.

The following table describes the items in a ports report.

Item Description
CHB Name of the channel board (also called a front-end director)
Type Package type of the channel board
Port Location Name of the port on the channel board
Port Attribute Attribute of the port
iSCSI Virtual Port Mode Mode of the iSCSI virtual port

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

TCP Port Number Port number to use for a socket (decimal)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

Internal WWN / Internal iSCSI Name Port WWN (16-digit hexadecimal) or iSCSI name of the port
Fabric One of the Fibre topology settings indicating the setting status of the Fabric switch

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Connection Type Fibre topology setting:
  • Point to Point
  • FC-AL

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

IPv4 : IP Address IPv4 address of the port

Output example: 192.168.0.100

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

IPv4 : Subnet Mask IPv4 subnet mask of the port

Output example: 255.255.255.0

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

IPv4 : Default Gateway IPv4 default gateway of the port

Output example: 255.255.255.0

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

IPv6 : Mode IPv6 settings of the port (enabled or disabled)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

IPv6 : Link Local Address IPv6 link local address of the port (16-digit hexadecimal)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

IPv6 : Global Address IPv6 global address of the port.

Output example: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx (hexadecimal)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

IPv6 : Global Address 2 IPv6 global address 2 of the port.

Output example: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx (hexadecimal)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

IPv6 : Assigned Default Gateway Assigned IPv6 default gateway

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

Selective ACK Selective ACK mode (enabled or disabled)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

Ethernet MTU Size (Byte) MTU settings (binary)

Output example: 1,500

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

Keep Alive Timer iSCSI keep alive timer (0 to 64,800) (sec)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

VLAN : Tagging Mode Tagging mode of VLAN (enabled or disabled)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

VLAN : ID Number of VLAN set to the port (1 to 4,094)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

CHAP User Name User name for the CHAP authentication

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

iSNS Server : Mode iSNS mode settings (on or off)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

iSNS Server : IP Address IP address of the iSNS server (30 to 65,535)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

iSNS Server : TCP Port Number Number of the TCP port used in iSNS (binary)

A hyphen (-) is displayed for any ports other than iSCSI ports.

Address (Loop ID) Fibre port address and Loop ID of the port

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Port Security Security of the port
  • Enable
  • Disable

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Speed Data transfer speed of the port
SFP Data Transfer Rate Maximum transfer rate of SFP which the mounted package supports.

Output example: 32G

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

If a hyphen (-) is displayed, you can confirm the SFP maximum data transfer rate by checking the channel board type displayed in Type:

  • 4Mx16 (Mfibre): 16 Gbps
  • 4Mx32 (Mfibre): 32 Gbps

T10 PI Mode

Indicates whether the T10 PI mode can be applied to the port.
  • Enabled
  • Disabled
  • - (hyphen): iSCSI or FICON port
Resource Group Name Name of the resource group to which the port belongs
Resource Group ID ID of the resource group to which the port belongs (0 to 1023)
Number of Hosts Number of hosts registered to the port

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Number of LUNs Number of LU paths defined to the port

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Number of LDEVs Number of logical volumes that can be accessed through the port

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Number of PGs Number of parity groups having the logical volumes that can be accessed through the port

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Number of DKBs Number of disk boards controlling the parity group that contains the logical volumes that can be accessed through the port

A hyphen (-) is displayed for mainframe ports.

Mode Operation mode of the Fibre Channel port:
  • SCSI: An enabled port in the SCSI mode.
  • NVMe: An enabled port in the NVMe mode.
  • - (hyphen): The port is not used for Fibre Channel.