Controller Ports

Oracle FS System Manager (GUI) allows you to update the protocol properties of a Controller for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or iSCSI.

You can modify the following aspects of the Controller ports:

The protocol that is used
Whether link aggregation is enabled
The management priority value used in link negotiation and identification for the aggregated ports

You can change port provisioning except for the following caveats:

Cannot change the port provisioning for Ethernet ports or for SAS ports.
Can only toggle the port provisioning between FC and iSCSI. If you do change the port provisioning, you must replace the small form factor (SFP) to match the provisioning.
All HBA ports must be provisioned identically. For example, Port 0 cannot be FC and Port 1 be iSCSI.

The system allows you to change port provisioning while the system is running. The system applies the port provisioning to both nodes in a Controller pair.

Important! Do not change port provisioning unless you are prepared for all clients to temporarily lose access. Changing port provisioning restarts the controller pair. This is a system restart.