Brocade Network OS Administrator’s Guide v4.1.1 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface...................................................................................................................................19
Document conventions....................................................................................19
Text formatting conventions................................................................ 19
Command syntax conventions............................................................ 19
Notes, cautions, and warnings............................................................ 20
Brocade resources.......................................................................................... 21
Contacting Brocade Technical Support...........................................................21
Document feedback........................................................................................ 22
About This Document.............................................................................................................. 23
Supported hardware and software.................................................................. 23
What’s new in this document.......................................................................... 24
Related documents ........................................................................................ 24
Section I: Network OS Administration...................................................................................... 25
Introduction to Network OS and Brocade VCS Fabric Technology..............................................27
Introduction to Brocade Network OS...............................................................27
Brocade VCS Fabric terminology........................................................28
Introduction to Brocade VCS Fabric technology............................................. 28
Automation.......................................................................................... 29
Distributed intelligence........................................................................ 30
Logical chassis....................................................................................31
Ethernet fabric formation.....................................................................32
Brocade VCS Fabric technology use cases....................................................33
Classic Ethernet access and aggregation use case........................... 33
Large-scale server virtualization use case.......................................... 35
Brocade VCS Fabric connectivity with Fibre Channel SAN................ 36
Topology and scaling...................................................................................... 37
Core-edge topology.............................................................................37
Ring topology...................................................................................... 38
Full mesh topology.............................................................................. 38
Using the Network OS CLI........................................................................................................41
Network OS CLI overview............................................................................... 41
Understanding roles............................................................................ 41
Accessing the Network OS CLI through Telnet ..............................................42
Saving your configuration changes................................................................. 42
Network OS CLI command modes..................................................................42
Network OS CLI keyboard shortcuts...............................................................42
Using the do command as a shortcut..............................................................43
Completing Network OS CLI commands........................................................ 43
Displaying Network OS CLI commands and command syntax.......................44
Using Network OS CLI command output modifiers.........................................45
Considerations for show command output .....................................................46
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