I had the joy of finishing off a data migration project on the weekend. The final step was to remove some McData Spherion 4500 FC switches from a stretched fabric. Normally, I’d just move some cables and ISLs about and rip out the switches (do you like my calculated approach to infrastructure projects?). However, in this instance, the McData switches were the last ones in the fabric and the fabric was running McData OpenFabric mode (aka interop mode 3). Pulling out the switches wasn’t really a problem, as the Brocade SilkWorm 300 switches that were left just took over and kept things going under interop mode 3. Cool, let’s get out of here now …<\/p>\n
The problem was that the client really wanted to go back to native mode. So we were running versions 6.1.0c and 6.2.0c on the Brocade switches, and version 9.7.2 on the McData switches. When I changed the switches back to interop mode\u00a00 (aka “native” mode), the zoning information all went and disappeared. 96 zonesets, 63 aliases and 1 configuration save later we were all up and running again. But I did think that maybe I could have saved myself 3 hours of copy and paste if I’d somehow done things a little smarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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