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  • 1.  Partnership for a 3-site configurations

    Posted Wed July 16, 2025 09:29 AM

    Hi all!

    I am configuring a third site in a hyperswap topology.
    However, I am unable to establish a partnership between Hyperswap and the new cabinet.
    When I run the lspartnershipcandidate command, I can see the other cabinet. However, when I run mkfcpartnership, I can't establish a partnership. I receive a "Not Present" status.
    I've checked the zones and created the aliases using the physical FC ports. They are configured in a separate virtual fabric.
    I've also checked the cabinet layers. Both are in storage layers.
    I'm stuck because I don't know what else to check.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks in advance.



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    Alejandro Carmona
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  • 2.  RE: Partnership for a 3-site configurations

    Posted Thu July 17, 2025 08:57 PM

    Hola Alejandro,
    Have you tried it by creating the partnership using the web GUI? It might not give you a different result but could help by giving you advice or the reason why it's not possible



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    Luis Lopez
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  • 3.  RE: Partnership for a 3-site configurations

    Posted Fri July 18, 2025 04:22 AM

    Hi Luis,
    We found the issue. We added the port from the three-site box to the Hyperswap zone, but you can't mix replication ports with inter-node ports.
    This happened because we had configured port masking on both boxes.
    I'm going to use new ports for replication only and create new zones – that should solve the problem.



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    Alejandro Carmona
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