What version of the Emulex Switch are you using?
At one of my sites i have an almost identical set up, in which we were using the Emulex 1000 series. Our Apple reps have “Verbally” admitted that zoning the Emulex 1000 will not work . I was seeing the same behavior as you are explaining and were told by Apple to to reseat the FC, memory etc…. We eventually just took the Emulex out of the picture and sent it back.
The solution that we finally got working was to direct connect the XServes to the XRAID’s and direct attach, from the second port, to the Excabyte 221l FC. We then set our jobs to run from the XServe attached to the Excabyte and attach to the second XRAID across the network. All of our drives mount without any issue and our backups run fine.
Ian
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