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Switch administration and FCoE
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Switch administration and FCoE
The DCB tab on the Switch Administration window is specific to DCE and DCB configuration and
management. The DCB tab has five subtabs (
Figure 47 ) that are used for FCoE switch
administration:
• Link Aggregation
• VLAN
• FCoE Login Group
• QoS
• LLDP-DCBX
FIGURE 47 Switch Administration DCB subtabs
FC0E configuration tasks
There are several tasks related to FC0E configuration. The following list describes the high level
tasks in a suggested order:
• Quality of Service (QoS) configuration (optional)—If you intend to implement a specific QoS
scheme to prioritize data traffic, it is recommended that you finish your QoS configuration
before you begin port configuration. QoS values are referenced when you configure ports.
• LLDP-DCBX configuration (optional)—If you intend to implement DCBX, it is recommended that
you finish LLDP-DCBX configuration before you configure ports. LLDP-DCBX values are
referenced when you configure ports.
• DCB interface configuration (mandatory).
• Link Aggregation Group (LAG) configuration (mandatory)—Ports must be configured before they
can be placed into a LAG. The parameters applied to the LAG reflects on each port that is
member of the LAG.
• VLAN configuration (optional)—Port and LAG names are referenced in VLAN configuration, and
must be defined before you can successfully complete a VLAN configuration.
• Login group configuration (optional)—Login group configuration is not dependent on any of the
above configurations. It can be done as a separate task.
Quality of Service configuration
As a general concept, Quality of Service (QoS) is a mechanism for classifying and scheduling data
traffic based on priority settings. QoS can be used to control traffic congestion, allocate bandwidth,
and carry data traffic with different characteristics over a common interface.
The following two configuration options are available: