Hello,  I'm not yet an expert on CML.  However, this question comes up quite often on the internal discussions.  Every time the answer has been, you must have a FC switch.  Direct attached Fibre Channel is not supported.  Never, "it works but not supported".   There is a CML model that has SAS direct attach support.  SAS only.   Without a switch I would suspect it goes to FCAL mode.  That's my suspicion anyway.    My suggestion, is open a case, make sure phone home is all set, great time to upgrade to most current SCOS, until the switches arrive.   Regards,  Don  
We recently bought an SC2080 Compellent and while we are waiting on our FC Switches we are trying to connect the compellent directly to an Emulex LP120002 HBA adapter (on an R330 with windows 2012 R2 with MPIO enabled), in the enterprise manager we can add our server and enterprise manager sees that the FC connections are up , as soon as we add the server connectivity goes down. is this because of the fact that an FC Switch is mandatory or is it supposed to work (although not supported) ?
Compellent SC2080 - Direct Front End FC connection