Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Learning to create a WWNN pool

WWNN is a 64-bit address assigned to Fiber Channel (FC) devices. In UCS, WWNN is assigned to the mezzanine card installed in a blade server because a mezzanine card can have more than one port (vHBA). Each port (vHBA) created from the mezzanine card acquires a unique World Wide Port Number (WWPN). (WWPN has been described in the next section.)

Following are the steps to create WWNN address pools:

1. Log in to the UCSM screen.
2. Click on the SAN tab in the navigation pane.
3. Click on the Pools tab and expand root.
4. Right-click on WWNN Pools and click on Create WWNN Pool as shown in the following screenshot:
   
5. In the pop-up window, ...