McData Sphereon 4500 connection issue

altavek · fully protected Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 13

Having a bit of an issue getting the workstations to link. They are connected via the orange fibre cables with the little metal adapters. The 2 Xserves and the 2 RAID units are connected with the white Apple FC cables and have no problem linking. These orange FC cables should be fine, as they were working on our now decomed SANbox switch.

Anyone have any history with this switch that might be able to shine some light on why the orange cables are the only ones not linking? Thanks!

abstractrude · Xsan Master Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 863

those orange cables with the little metal adapters...probably time to hit up an integrator. have you tried plugging directly into storage?

altavek · fully protected Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 13

Turns out that the problem is actually the switch and not really worth pursuing any further due to the age of the thing.

Plus, it seems that the instability I'm having with my SAN isn't from the Qlogic switch in the first place as it crashed while connected to the McData switch. Back to square 1.