Brocade Communications Systems A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base, Administrator'S Manual

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Page 5: ...al Brocade features xi Getting technical help xi Document feedback xii Chapter 1 Getting Started In this chapter 1 Brocade Access Gateway 1 Fabric OS features in Access Gateway mode 2 Access Gateway port types 3 Comparison of Access Gateway ports to standard switch ports 3 How Access Gateway maps ports 4 Upgrade and downgrade considerations 5 Considerations with policies enabled 5 Advance Device S...

Page 6: ...ling the Failover policy 14 Disabling the Failover policy 15 Failback policy 15 Enabling the Failback policy 16 Cold Failover policy 17 Port Grouping policy 17 Creating a port group 19 Adding an N_Port to a port group 20 Deleting an N_Port from a port group 20 Removing a port group 20 Renaming a port group 21 Disabling the Port Group policy 21 Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix 21 Access Gat...

Page 7: ...teway mode 38 Enabling Access Gateway mode 38 Port States 39 Disabling Access Gateway mode 40 Re joining switches to a fabric 41 Reverting to a previous configuration 41 Chapter 4 Configuring Ports in Access Gateway mode In this chapter 43 Port Initialization in Access Gateway mode 43 N_Ports 44 Unlocking N_Ports 45 Displaying N_Port configurations 46 Verifying port mapping and status 46 Displayin...

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Page 9: ...describes how to enable policies on a switch in Access Gateway mode Chapter 3 Connecting Devices Using Access Gateway describes how to connect multiple devices using Access Gateway Chapter 4 Configuring Ports in Access Gateway mode describes how to configure ports in Access Gateway mode Appendix A Troubleshooting provides symptoms and troubleshooting tips to resolve issues Supported hardware and s...

Page 10: ...e narrative text formatting conventions that are used in this document are as follows bold text Identifies command names Identifies the names of user manipulated GUI elements Identifies keywords and operands Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI italic text Provides emphasis Identifies variables Identifies paths and Internet addresses Identifies document titles code text Identifies CLI output...

Page 11: ...ionary For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel see the Brocade Glossary The following terms are used in this manual to describe Access Gateway mode and its components Access Gateway AG Fabric OS mode for embedded switches that reduces SAN storage area network deployment complexity by leveraging NPIV N_Port ID virtualization E_Port An ISL Interswitch link port A switch port that conne...

Page 12: ...iscussions about SAN design implementation and maintenance you can obtain Building SANs with Brocade Fabric Switches through http www amazon com For additional Brocade documentation visit the Brocade SAN Info Center and click the Resource Library location http www brocade com Release notes are available on the Brocade Connect Web site and are also bundled with the Fabric OS firmware Other industry...

Page 13: ...rformed and the results Serial console and Telnet session logs Syslog message logs 2 Switch Serial Number The switch serial number and corresponding bar code are provided on the serial number label as shown here The serial number label is located as follows Brocade 200E On the nonport side of the chassis Brocade 300 On the nonport side of the chassis Brocade 4100 4900 and 7500 On the switch ID pul...

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Page 15: ...5 Automatic Port Configuration policy 5 Port Grouping policy 5 Brocade Access Gateway Brocade Access Gateway is a Fabric OS feature that lets you configure your Enterprise fabric to handle additional N_Ports instead of domains You do this by configuring F_Ports to connect to the fabric as N_Ports which increases the number of device ports you can connect to a single fabric Multiple Gas can connect...

Page 16: ...eway trunking considerations on page 23 You must have the role of securityadmin admin or user to configure AG All security enforcement is done in the Enterprise fabric using the Advanced Device Security policy ADS which secures virtual connections in the case where the physical connection to the SAN is lost When you enable the ADS policy by default every port is configured to allow all devices to ...

Page 17: ...ost and an N_Port to an edge fabric switch Using N_Port ID virtualization NPIV AG allows multiple FC initiators to access the SAN on the same physical port This reduces the hardware requirements and management overhead of hosts to the SAN connections A fabric switch presents F_Ports or FL_Ports and storage devices to the host and presents E_Ports VE_Ports or EX_Ports to other switches in the fabri...

Page 18: ... N_Ports connect to the same fabric through different edge switches FIGURE 3 Example F_Port to N_Port mapping TABLE 1 Port configurations Port Type Access Gateway Fabric switch F_Port Yes Connects hosts and targets to Access Gateway Yes Connects devices such as hosts HBAs and storage to the fabric N_Port Yes Connects Access Gateway to a fabric switch NA N_Ports are not supported E_Port NA ISL is n...

Page 19: ...ions when the Brocade policies are enabled Advance Device Security policy If ADS is enabled downgrading to v6 0 is allowed however the ADS policy is not supported in v6 0 0 Automatic Port Configuration policy If you upgrade from Fabric OS v6 0 x to Fabric OS v6 1 0 by default the APC policy is disabled If the APC is enabled you can downgrade from Fabric OS v6 1 0 to Fabric OS v6 0 0 Port Grouping ...

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Page 21: ...f devices allowed at login 10 Adding new devices to the list of devices allowed at login 10 Displaying the list of devices on the switch 11 Automatic Port Configuration policy 11 Enabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy 12 Disabling the Automatic Port Configuration policy 12 Rebalancing F_Ports with APC policy enabled 12 Enabling the Failover policy 14 Failover Policy 13 Enabling the Failo...

Page 22: ...to Port Configuration auto Disabled Advanced Device Security ads Enabled Advance Device Security policy The Advance Device Security ADS policy is supported on AG F_Ports Fabric OS v6 1 0 extends the DCC policy to switches in AG mode to provide an additional level of security It does this by extending the DCC policy to the physical F_Ports and the NPIV logins on F_Ports As more physical servers bec...

Page 23: ... log in count Replace the WWN list with an asterisk to indicate all access on the specified F_Port list Replace the F_Port list with an asterisk to add the specified WWNs to all the F_Ports allow lists A blank WWN list indicates no access The ADS policy must be enabled for this command to succeed NOTE Use an asterisk enclosed in quotation marks to set the Allow list to All Access to all F_Ports us...

Page 24: ...sdel F_Port F_Port2 WWN WWN2 1 Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the ag adsdel 3 9 22 03 08 00 88 35 a0 12 22 00 00 e0 8b 88 01 8b command switch admin ag adsdel 3 9 22 03 08 00 88 35 a0 12 22 00 00 e0 8b 88 01 8b WWNs removed successfully from Allow Lists of the F_Port s Viewing F_Ports allowed to login Adding new devices to the list of devices allowed at login Use the adsadd comm...

Page 25: ...orts is created and F_Ports are evenly distributed across all N_Ports While the APC is enabled you cannot manually configure F_Port to N_Port mapping ATTENTION Enabling the APC policy is disruptive to F_Ports and N_Ports You must disable the switch before you enable the APC policy because when you enable the APC policy existing F_Port to N_Port mappings are deleted Because the APC policy enforceme...

Page 26: ...disable auto Default factory settings will be restored Default mappings will come into effect Please save the current configuration using configupload Do you want to continue yes y no n no y Access Gateway configuration has been restored to factory default 4 Enter the switchenable command to enable the switch Rebalancing F_Ports with APC policy enabled When the APC policy is enabled there are no s...

Page 27: ...how a failover event occurs An N_Port goes offline All F_Ports mapped to that N_Port are disabled If the N_Port Failover policy is enabled and a Preferred Secondary N_Port is specified for the F_Port and that N_Port is online the F_Port fails over to the respective Preferred Secondary N_Port and then re enables NOTE The Preferred Secondary N_Port is defined per F_Port For example if two F_Ports ar...

Page 28: ...pported 3 Enter the ag command with the failoverenable n_portnumber operand to enable failover switch admin ag failoverenable 13 Failover policy is enabled for port 13 F_A2 Hosts Access Gateway Edge Switch Fabric Switch_A enabled NPIV F_4 F_3 F_2 F_1 N_1 F_A1 enabled NPIV N_3 F_B1 enabled NPIV Host_1 Host_2 Host_3 Host_4 F_5 Host_5 F_6 Host_6 F_7 Host_7 F_8 Host_8 Edge Switch Switch_B N_4 F_B2 ena...

Page 29: ...perience failback The remaining F_Ports are not redistributed among the online N_Ports during the failback If the APC policy is enabled by default the failback policy is disabled NOTE The Failback policy is an N_Port parameter By default the Failback policy is enabled The following sequence describes how a failback event occurs When an N_Port comes back online with the Failback policy enabled the ...

Page 30: ...lback policy 1 Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the ag failbackshow command with the n_portnumber operand to display the failback setting switch admin ag failbackshow 13 Failback on N_Port 13 is supported 3 Enter the ag failbackdisable command with the n_portnumber operand to disable failover switch admin ag failbackdisable 13 Failback policy is disabled for port 13 F_A2 Hosts Acc...

Page 31: ... N_Ports Port groups cannot be overlapped This means that an N_Port cannot belong to two different groups The Failover and Failback policies remain the same within each port group and the Preferred Secondary N_Port can only specify the N_Ports from the same port group This is why it is recommended to form groups before defining the preferred secondary path This behavior is only in Fabric OS v6 0 0...

Page 32: ...N_Ports connected to the redundant fabric into a single port group It is recommended to have paths fail over to the redundant fabric when the primary fabric goes down FIGURE 7 pg1 setup ATTENTION If N_Ports are connected to unrelated fabrics are grouped together N_Port failover within a port group can cause the F_Ports to connect to a different fabric and the F_Ports may lose connectivity to the t...

Page 33: ...n fails NOTE If the PG policy is disabled while a switch in AG mode is online all the user defined port groups are deleted but the F_Port to N_Port mapping remain unchanged Creating a port group 1 Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the command ag pgcreate with the PG_ID N_Port1 N_Port2 n PG_Name operands For example to create a port group FirstFabric that includes N_Ports 1 and 3 sw...

Page 34: ...3 14 Test Deleting an N_Port from a port group 1 Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the command ag pgdel with the PG_ID N_Port1 N_Port2 operands switch admin ag pgdel 3 13 N_Port s are added to the port group 3 3 Enter the command ag pgshow to verify the N_Port was deleted from the specified port group switch admin ag pgshow PG_ID N_Ports PG_Name 0 13 15 pg0 3 12 14 Test Removing a ...

Page 35: ...dmin 2 Enter the command ag policydisable with the pg operand switch admin ag policydisable pg 3 Enter the command ag pgshow to verify the Port Group policy is disabled switch admin ag policyshow AG Policy Policy Name State Port Grouping pg Disabled Auto Port Configuration auto Disabled Advance Device Security ADS Disabled Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix The following table shows which co...

Page 36: ...om becoming disabled in the case where they are mapped to an N_Port on a switch in Access Gateway mode With F_Port trunking any link within a trunk can go off line or become disabled but the trunk remains fully functional and there are no re configuration requirements F_Port trunking prevents reassignments of the Port ID also referred to as the Address Identifier as described in Table 5 on page 25...

Page 37: ... edge switch to the port or removing a Trunk Area from a trunk group You cannot assign a Trunk Area to ports if the standby CP is running a firmware version earlier than Fabric OS v6 1 0 PWWN The entire Trunk Area trunk group share the same Port WWN within the trunk group The PWWN is the same across the F_Port trunk that will have 0x2f or 0x25 as the first byte of the PWWN The TA is part of the PW...

Page 38: ...15 FC4 32 blade If an FC4 32 Electron blade has the Trunk Area enabled on ports 16 31 and the blade is swapped with an FC4 48C and FC8 48 blade the Trunk Area ports will be persistently disabled You can run the porttrunkarea command to assign a Trunk Area on those ports Trunking You must first enable Trunking on the port before the port can have a Trunk Area assigned to it PID format F_Port master...

Page 39: ...head of time what PWWN AG will use the PWWN of the FLOGI will not go through DCC policy check on an F_Port trunk master However the PWWN of the FDISC will continue to go through DCC policy check D I Zoning D I AD D I DCC and PWWN I DCC Creating a Trunk Area may remove the Index I from the switch to be grouped to the Trunk Area All ports in a Trunk Area share the same I This means that Domain Index...

Page 40: ...re that ports will become the same speed within the trunk 5 Ensure that edge switch F_Port trunk ports are connected within the asic supported trunk group on AG switch 6 Ensure that both modules are running the same Fabric OS versions 7 Configure the trunk on the edge switch by assigning the Trunk Area TA using the Assigning a Trunk Area procedure 8 Enable F_Port trunking Assigning a Trunk Area Yo...

Page 41: ...er 10 13 125 125 10 14 F port Slave 10 13 125 126 Enabling the DCC policy on trunk 1 After you assign a Trunk Area the porttrunkarea CLI checks whether there are any active DCC policies on the port with the index TA and then issues a warning to add all the device WWNs to the existing DCC policy with index as TA All DCC policies that refer to an Index that no longer exist will not be in effect 2 Ad...

Page 42: ...ndex 7 no longer exists for domain 3 AD1 s 3 8 which is the TA group can still be seen by AD1 along with 4 13 and 4 14 A port within a TA can be removed but this adds the Index back to the switch For example the same AD1 and AD2 with TA 8 holds true If you remove port 7 from the TA it adds Index 7 back to the switch That means AD1 s 3 7 can be seen by AD1 along with 3 8 4 13 and 4 14 Enabling Acce...

Page 43: ..._Module 32 32 id N4 No_Light 33 33 id N4 No_Light 34 34 id N4 No_Light 35 35 id N4 No_Light 36 36 id N4 Online F Port 20 14 00 05 1e 41 4b 4d 37 37 id N4 Online F Port 20 15 00 05 1e 41 4b 4d 38 38 id N4 Online F Port 20 16 00 05 1e 41 4b 4d 39 39 id N4 Online F Port 2 NPIV public 5 Display TA enabled port configuration switch admin porttrunkarea show enabled Port Type State Master TA DA 36 37 36 ...

Page 44: ...the F_Port trunk port Whenever the master port changes it is required to move the monitor to the new master port For example if a master port goes down a new master is selected from the remaining slave ports APM must delete the monitor from the old master and install the monitor on new master port If you attempt to add a monitor to a slave port it is automatically added to the master port ...

Page 45: ...onnected to an external switch Loop devices and FICON channels control unit connectivity are not supported When a switch is in AG mode it can be connected to NPIV enabled HBAs or F_Ports that are NPIV aware Access Gateway supports NPIV industry standards per FC LS 2 v1 4 In this chapter Configuring the fabric and edge switch 32 Verifying the switch mode 32 Setting the Fabric OS switch to Native Mo...

Page 46: ...lude the Access Gateway WWN or the port WWN of the N_Ports also include the HBA WWNs that will be connected to AG F_Ports to the ACL list in ACL policies Allow inband queries for forwarded fabric management requests from the hosts Add the Access Gateway switch WWN to the access list if inband queries are restricted NOTE Befoe connecting Access Gateway to a Fabric OS fabric disable the Fabric OS Ma...

Page 47: ...tion of the port state If the switch is in Native mode you can enable AG mode otherwise set the switch to Native mode and then reboot the switch Setting the Fabric OS switch to Native Mode 1 Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the switchDisable command to disable the switch switch admin switchdisable 3 Save the switch configuration using the configUpload command a Verify that the FTP...

Page 48: ... PIDs with lower 8 bits In ALPA routing mode Cisco switches assign PIDs to NPIV devices that differ in the lower 16 bits and assign PIDs for NPIV logins in the format of ddXXXX Fabric OS switches assigns PIDs in the format of ddaaXX You can configure these switches to route frames to a destination port based on the lower 16 bits in the PID Because switches in AG mode use the lower 8 bits of the FC...

Page 49: ...http www cisco com en US docs storage san_switches mds9000 sw rel_2_x san os configu ration guide adv html wp1127676 Editing Company ID List if no FC target devices on switch You can connect a Cisco MDS switch to a switch in AG mode if there are no FC target devices such as storage arrays on the Cisco switch You can do this by editing the Company ID List or by placing the Cisco switch FCID allocat...

Page 50: ... listed in the updated Company ID List After you update the list you are ready to connect the Access Gateway device If any of the AG server ports F_Ports report that the port is disabled with reason code Duplicate ALPA Detected then use the follow considerations Ensure that the debug FLOGI mode is not enabled Cisco does not support NPIV when FLOGI debug is set Run the show debug flogi command to v...

Page 51: ... ID list and then delete the OUI IDs of all the HBAs that are connected through the switch in Access Gateway mode from the Company ID list You must remove the OUI IDs if and only if they are in the Company ID list Use the following commands to determine if the OUIs in the Company ID list switch _show fcid allocation area FCID area allocation company id info 00 50 2E Default entry 00 50 8B 00 60 B0...

Page 52: ...he maximum number of AGs that can be connected to an edge switch is 30 The maximum number of devices that can be connected to a Fabric OS switch through AG depends on the maximum number of local devices that are supported by Fabric OS Enabling Access Gateway mode Ensure that no zoning or AD transaction buffers are active If any transaction buffer is active enabling AG mode will fail with the error...

Page 53: ... cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 10 10 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 11 11 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 12 12 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 13 13 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 14 14 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 15 15 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 16 16 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 17 17 N4 No_Module 18 18 N4 No_Module 19 19 id N4 No_Light 20 20 N4 No_Module 21 21 i...

Page 54: ...deshow Access Gateway mode is enabled 3 Enter the switchDisable command to disable the switch switch admin switchdisable NOTE To save the Access Gateway configuration use the configUpload command before proceeding with the next step 4 Enter the ag command with the modedisable operand to disable AG mode switch admin ag modedisable The switch automatically reboots and comes back online using the fab...

Page 55: ...c configuration use the following procedure 1 Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the switchDisable command to disable the switch 3 Enter the defZone allAccess command to allow the switch to merge with the fabric 4 Enter the cfgSave command to commit the defzone changes 5 Enter the switchEnable command to enable the switch and allow it to merge with the fabric The switch automaticall...

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Page 57: ...tialization in Access Gateway mode To ensure that all hosts are brought online when a switch in Access Gateway mode starts up the ports are initialized in the following manner 1 When you enable a switch to AG mode N_Ports are initialized only if they belong to the default factory configuration of the switch During N_Port initialization all the F_Ports are disabled kept offline The ports are enable...

Page 58: ... single fabric port You can connect AG to more than one fabric When AG is connected to at least one edge switch in the fabric Fibre Channel ports operate as either a target or as an initiator Fibre Channel ports target ports can also connect to AG as F_Ports The following combinations are possible with initiators and targets All F_Ports connect to the FCP initiator port All F_Ports connect to the ...

Page 59: ..._Ports that can be mapped to an N_Port is the number of ports on the switch minus one Figure 10 shows a host connected to an embedded switch s external F_Port when Access Gateway is enabled The configured F_Port is mapped to an N_Port FIGURE 10 Example of adding an external F_Port F9 on an embedded switch Unlocking N_Ports Unlocking the N_Port configuration automatically changes the port to an F_P...

Page 60: ...age devices and E_Ports EX_Ports and VE_Ports for connections to other switches Displaying N_Port configurations 1 Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the portcfgnport command switch admin portcfgnport Ports 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Locked N_Port ON ON ON ON ON ON Verifying port mapping and status You can display the port mappings and status of the host connections to th...

Page 61: ...6 0b 00 00 3c b7 32 0x5a0101 2 2 cu N4 Online F Port 10 00 00 00 c9 35 43 f5 0x5a0003 3 3 cu N4 Online F Port 50 06 0b 00 00 3c b6 1e 0x5a0102 4 4 cu N4 Online F Port 10 00 00 00 c9 35 43 9b 0x5a0002 5 5 cu N4 Online F Port 50 06 0b 00 00 3c b4 3e 0x5a0201 6 6 cu N4 Online F Port 10 00 00 00 c9 35 43 f3 0x5a0202 7 7 cu AN No_Sync Disabled Persistent 8 8 cu N4 Online F Port 10 00 00 00 c9 35 43 a1 ...

Page 62: ... connected to the same fabric You can assign an F_Port to only one primary N_Port at a time If the F_Port is already assigned to an N_Port you must remove it from the N_Port before you can add it Use the following procedure to add an F_Port to an N_Port NOTE For bladed servers the HBA connects to the internal ports Internal ports are F_Ports By default only the external ports are configured as N_P...

Page 63: ...iple F_Port numbers separated by semicolons for example 17 18 switch admin ag mapadd 13 6 7 F Port to N Port mapping has been updated successfully 5 Enter the ag mapshow command with the n_portnumber operand to display the list of mapped F_Ports Verify that the added F_Ports appear in the list switch admin ag mapshow 13 N_Port 13 Failover 1 enabled 0 disabled 1 Failback 1 enabled 0 disabled 1 Curr...

Page 64: ...Connect to the switch and log in as admin 2 Enter the ag prefset command with the F_Port1 F_Port2 N_Port operands to add the preferred secondary F_Ports to the specified N_Port The F_Ports that you want to map must be enclosed in quotation marks and the port numbers must be separated by a semicolon for example switch admin ag prefset 3 9 4 Preferred N_Port is set successfully for the F_Port s Dele...

Page 65: ...0 15 16 23 0 1 mapped to 16 2 3 mapped to 17 4 5 mapped to 18 6 7 mapped to 19 8 9 mapped to 20 10 11 mapped to 21 12 13 mapped to 22 14 15mapped to 23 200E 16 0 11 12 15 0 1 2 mapped to 12 3 4 5 mapped to 13 6 7 8 mapped to 14 9 10 11 mapped to 15 4012 12 0 7 8 11 0 1 mapped to 8 2 3 mapped to 9 4 5 mapped to 10 6 7 mapped to 11 4016 16 0 9 10 15 0 1 mapped to 10 2 3 mapped to 11 4 5 mapped to 12...

Page 66: ...23 15 16 mapped to 0 4424 24 17 20 1 8 17 20 as N_Port with failover enabled failback enabled 0 21 23 as N_Port with failover enabled failback enabled 1 2 mapped to 17 3 4 mapped to 19 5 6 mapped to 21 7 8 mapped to 23 9 10 mapped to 18 11 12 mapped to 20 13 14 mapped to 22 15 16 mapped to 0 TABLE 9 Access Gateway default F_Port to N_Port mapping Brocade Model Total Ports F_Ports N_Ports Default F...

Page 67: ... NPIV is disabled Enter the portCfgNpivPort port_number command with the 1 operand to enable NPIV Repeat step for each port as required Need to reconfigure N_Port and F_Ports Default port setting not adequate for customer environment On Brocade Access Gateway enter the portCfgShow command For each port that is to be activated as an N_Port enter the portCfgNport port_number command with the 1 opera...

Page 68: ...ort_number is supported If it returns Failback or Failover on N_Port port_number is not supported See Adding a preferred secondary N_Port on page 50 Access Gateway is mode not wanted Access Gateway must be disabled Disable switch using the switchDisable command Enable Access Gateway mode using the ag modeDisable command Answer yes when prompted the switch reboots Log in to the switch Display the s...

Page 69: ...ing to multiple fabrics 11 disabling 12 enabling 12 rebalancing F_Ports 12 area assignment 23 authentication limitations 23 B behavior failover policy 16 C Cisco switch adding OUIs 36 AG routing requirements 34 Company ID list 35 deleting OUIs 35 36 displaying FCID 36 editing Company ID list 35 enabling Flat FCID mode 37 enabling NPIV 34 FLOGI support 36 interoperability with AG 34 no FC target de...

Page 70: ... downgrading 23 considerations 5 E edge switch FLOGI 32 long distance mode setting 32 NPIV 32 settings 32 external port N_Port 48 F F_Port adding external port on embedded switch 45 Address Identifier 22 allow list 2 disabling trunking 29 internal ports 48 mapping example 4 mapping show 46 maximum number mapped to N_Port 45 remove 49 settings edge switch 32 shared area ports 26 trunking 22 trunkin...

Page 71: ...5 native mode setting 33 non disruptive 23 NPIV edge switch 32 enable with portcfgnpivport command 45 enabling on Cisco switch 34 enabling on M EOS swtich 33 support 31 O optional features xi P Policies Access Gateway 8 Advance Device Security 8 enabling DCC policy 27 enforcement matrix 21 Port Grouping 17 security enforcement 8 showing current policies 8 using policyshow command 8 port comparison...

Page 72: ...policies 32 FLOGI 32 inband queries 32 Management Server Platform 32 zone no access 41 supported hardware and software vii switch mode verify 32 switchMode Access Gateway mode 38 Native 32 T terms ix trunk area activate DCC policy 27 assign 26 configuration management 28 disabling 24 remove ports 26 standby CP 23 using the porttrunkarea command 24 trunk groups create 25 trunk master limitation 24 ...