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UCS Failure Scenarios Testing using CLI
Introduction on page 1
Testing Fabric Interconnect failure on page 1
Testing UCS Blade failure on page 3
Testing Server Port failure on page 4
Testing Uplink Port failure on page 6
Related Information on page 8

Introduction
This document shows various UCS failure scenarios and method to test them. These tests
are good to check for correct UCS system behavior in case of a failure. A UCS system
consists of one or two UCS 6100 series switches or fabric interconnects. A UCS system
with two fabric interconnects is typically deployed in active-active pair that supports failover.
UCS 2100 fabric extender enables the UCS 6100 fabric interconnect to provide all access-
layer switching needs for the connected servers. This traffic is then switched to its required
destination by the fabric interconnect and no switching, whatsoever, is done by the fabric
extender. This document shows how to test the following failure scenarios using the UCS
Manager CLI:
Fabric Interconnect failure
UCS Blade failure
Server Port failure
Uplink Port failure

Testing Fabric Interconnect failure
The method here is to reboot one FI switch, preferably the subordinate fabric interconnect
switch. The expected result is to check the "show cluster state" command will show the
primary fabric interconnect "UP" and the subordinate fabric interconnect "DOWN". The fabric
interconnect cluster will show "NOT READY".

Sample Test
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On Fabric Interconnect A (Primary):
UCS1-FA-A# show cluster state
Cluster Id: 0x603bca7e0b7311e1-0x9987547fee1fd575
A: UP, PRIMARY
B: UP, SUBORDINATE
HA READY

On Fabric Interconnect B (Subordinate):
UCS1-FA-B(local-mgmt)# reboot
The switch will be rebooted. Are you sure? (yes/no):yes
Read from remote host 10.134.166.89: Connection reset by peer
Connection to 10.134.166.89 closed.

Verify on the Primary Fabric Interconnect:
UCS1-FA-A# show cluster state
Cluster Id: 0x603bca7e0b7311e1-0x9987547fee1fd575
A: UP, PRIMARY
B: DOWN, INAPPLICABLE
HA NOT READY
Peer Fabric Interconnect is down

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Testing UCS Blade failure
This method requires reboot of a UCS blade server. The expected result is that the Overall
Status coloumn in the "show server status" command will show "Power Off" while the blade
is rebooting.

Sample Test
[UCS1-80 ~]$ reboot

Verify on the Primary Fabric Interconnect:
UCS1-FA-A# show server status
Server Slot Status Availability Overall Status Discovery
------- --------------------------------- ------------ --------------------- ---------
<--output omitted-->
10/1 Equipped Unavailable Ok Complete
10/2 Equipped Unavailable Ok Complete
10/3 Equipped Unavailable Ok Complete
10/4 Equipped Unavailable Ok Complete
10/5 Equipped Unavailable Ok Complete
10/6 Equipped Unavailable Ok Complete
10/7 Equipped Unavailable Ok Complete
10/8 Equipped Unavailable Power Off Complete

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Testing Server Port failure
This method requires to disable a server port (interface); e.g. server port 1/9 in fabric
interconnect B. The expected result is that the server's "show interface" command in the
fabric will show the port's Admin State "Disabled" and Oper State "Failed".

Sample Test
UCS1-FA-A# scope eth-server
UCS1-FA-A /eth-server # scope fabric b
UCS1-FA-A /eth-server/fabric # show interface

Interface:

Slot Id Port Id Admin State Oper State Lic State Grace Prd State
Reason
---------- ---------- ----------- ---------------- -------------------- --------------- ------------
1 1 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 10 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 11 Enabled Up License Ok 0
<--output omitted-->
1 6 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 7 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 8 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 9 Enabled Up License Ok 0
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UCS1-FA-A /eth-server/fabric # enter interface 1 9
UCS1-FA-A /eth-server/fabric/interface # disable
UCS1-FA-A /eth-server/fabric/interface # commit-buffer
UCS1-FA-A /eth-server/fabric/interface # exit

To Verify:
UCS1-FA-A /eth-server/fabric # show interface

Interface:

Slot Id Port Id Admin State Oper State Lic State Grace Prd State Reason
---------- ---------- ----------- ---------------- -------------------- --------------- ------------
1 1 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 10 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 11 Enabled Up License Ok 0
<--output omitted-->
1 6 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 7 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 8 Enabled Up License Ok 0
1 9 Disabled Failed Unknown 0 Admin config change

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UCS1-FA-A / eth-server # exit

Testing Uplink Port failure
This method requires to disable services on an uplink port, e.g. Uplink Port 1/39 on Fabric B.
The expected result is that the fabric's uplink "show interface" command will show the port's
Admin State "Disabled" and Oper State "Admin Down".

Sample Test
UCS1-FA-A# scope eth-uplink
UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink # scope fabric b
UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink/fabric # show interface

Interface:

Slot Id Port Id Admin State Oper State Lic State Grace Period State
Reason
---------- ---------- ----------- ---------------- -------------------- --------------- ------------
1 36 Disabled Admin Down Unknown 0
Administratively down
1 40 Disabled Admin Down Unknown 0
Administratively down

Member Port:

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Port-channel Slot Port Oper State State Reason Lic State
Grace Period
------------ ----- ----- --------------- ----------------------------------- -------------------- ------------
1 1 35 Up License Ok 0
1 1 39 Up License Ok 0
2 1 33 Sfp Not Present Unknown Unknown
0
2 1 37 Sfp Not Present Unknown Unknown
0

UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink/fabric # enter interface 1 39
UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink/fabric/interface* # disable
UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink/fabric/interface* # commit-buffer
UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink/fabric/interface # exit

To verify:
UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink/fabric # show interface

Interface:

Slot Id Port Id Admin State Oper State Lic State Grace Period State
Reason
---------- ---------- ----------- ---------------- -------------------- --------------- ------------
1 36 Disabled Admin Down Unknown 0
Administratively down
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1 39 Disabled Admin Down Unknown 0
Administratively down
1 40 Disabled Admin Down Unknown 0
Administratively down

Member Port:

Port-channel Slot Port Oper State State Reason Lic State
Grace Period
------------ ----- ----- --------------- ----------------------------------- -------------------- ------------
1 1 35 Up License Ok 0
2 1 33 Sfp Not Present Unknown Unknown
0
2 1 37 Sfp Not Present Unknown Unknown
0

UCS1-FA-A /eth-uplink/fabric # exit

Related Information
Understanding Fabric Failure and Failover in UCS
How to recover from a software failure on the 6120 Fabric Interconnect
Procedure to Gracefully Shutdown and Powerup UCS system

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