Adding a Secure Fabric

If your fabric environment only contains nonpartitionable enterprise partition platforms (NEPPs), refer to Choosing from Predefined Secure Fabrics for a NEPP-only Fabric Environment for more information on the predefined secure fabrics available for your use.

If your fabric environment includes partitionable enterprise partition platforms (PEPPs), you can use the Fabric Manager user interface to create secure fabrics.

The number of partition images that you can associate with the secure fabric depends on the number of logical ports available on the platform on which the secure fabric is created.

Prerequisites

To add a secure fabric

  1. On the Fabric Manager user interface, point to System Administration, and then click Secure Fabrics.

    The Manage Secure Fabric appears on the left pane and the Details: Physical Fabric screen appears on the right pane.

  2. (Optional) In the Details: Physical Fabric pane, click Add.

    The Add Secure Fabric window appears.

  3. In the Add Secure Fabric window, provide appropriate information in the following fields:

    • Secure Fabric Name: Type a name for the secure fabric

      Note: The following is a list of names that you cannot use to name a secure fabric:

      0

      forward-system

      forwardsystem

      localhost

      FMP-1

      FMP-2

      secure-fabric

      securefabric

      secure-fabrics

      securefabrics

      ip-lan

      iplan

      fmlan

      fm-lan

      hdlan

      hd-lan

      physical-fabric

      physicalfabric

      physicalfabrics

      physical-fabrics

      switch

      switches

      forwardsystems

      cpf-system

    • Description: Provide a description for the secure fabric.

    • IPv4 Subnet Details: Provide the following information:

      • Subnet IP: Type the IP address of the subnet with which the secure fabric is associated. If the subnet IP that you are providing already exists, then a warning message appears. Click OK if you wish to continue with the same IP.

        Notes:

        The IP addresses should meet the following requirements:

        • Class ‘A’: First Octet should be between 1 and 126

        • Class ‘B’: First Octet should be between 128 and 191

        • Class ‘C’: First Octet should be between 192 and 223

        Unisys recommends the use of private “IPv4” address spaces.

      • QoS: Select the Quality of Service (QoS) associated with the secure fabric.

        The InfiniBand technology includes the Secure Fabrics concept of service levels. The service levels allow you to adjust the priorities and performance of the secure fabrics based on the requirements and traffic associated with an application, or based on application workloads. For more information on the QoS, see ClearPath Forward Overview and Planning Guide.

      • Subnet Tag: Select the Subnet tag.

        The subnet tags are the unique preexisting identifiers for secure fabrics. (Subnet tags are known in InfiniBand as PKEYs).

  4. Click Add.

    A confirmation message appears.

  5. Click Yes.

    The new secure fabric appears in the Details: Physical Fabric screen.

Notes:

  • You can associate up to 126 partition images with a secure fabric.

  • To resize and enable the partition images in a secure fabric, the partition images must be in a stopped state.