Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

Fabric os, Administrator’s guide

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About This Document
- In this chapter
- How this document is organized
- Supported hardware and software
- What’s new in this document
- Document conventions
- Notice to the reader
- Additional information
  - Brocade resources
  - Other industry resources
- Getting technical help
- Document feedback
Understanding Fibre Channel Services
- In this chapter
- Fibre Channel services overview
- The Management Server
- Platform services
- Management server database
- Topology discovery
- Device login
- High availability of daemon processes
Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
- In this chapter
- Fabric OS overview
- Fabric OS command line interface
- Password modification
  - Default account passwords
- The Ethernet interface on your switch
- Date and time settings
- Domain IDs
  - Displaying the domain IDs
  - Setting the domain ID
- Switch names
  - Customizing the switch name
- Chassis names
  - Customizing chassis names
- Switch activation and deactivation
  - Disabling a switch
  - Enabling a switch
- Switch and enterprise-class platform shutdown
  - Powering off a Brocade switch
  - Powering off a Brocade enterprise-class platform
- Basic connections
  - Device connection
  - Switch connection
Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks
- In this chapter
- PIDs and PID binding overview
- Ports
- Blade terminology and compatibility
- Enabling and disabling blades
  - Enabling blades
  - Disabling blades
- Blade swapping
  - Swapping blades
  - Swapping blades
- Power management
  - Powering off a port blade
  - Powering on a port blade
- Equipment status
- Track and control switch changes
- Audit log configuration
Routing Traffic
- About this chapter
- Routing overview
- Inter-switch links
  - Buffer credits
  - Virtual Channels
- Gateway links
  - Configuring a link through a gateway
- Inter-chassis links
  - Supported topologies
- Routing policies
- Route selection
  - Dynamic Load Sharing
  - Static route assignment
- Frame order delivery
  - Forcing in-order frame delivery across topology changes
  - Restoring out-of-order frame delivery across topology changes
- Lossless Dynamic Load Sharing on ports
- Frame Redirection
Managing User Accounts
- In this chapter
- User accounts overview
  - Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  - The management channel
- Local database user accounts
  - Default accounts
  - Local account passwords
- Local account database distribution
- Password policies
- The boot PROM password
- The authentication model using RADIUS and LDAP
Configuring Protocols
- In this chapter
- Security protocols
- Secure Copy
  - Setting up SCP for configUploads and downloads
- Secure Shell protocol
  - SSH public key authentication
- Secure Sockets Layer protocol
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- Telnet protocol
  - Blocking Telnet
  - Unblocking Telnet
- Listener applications
- Ports and applications used by switches
  - Port configuration
Configuring Security Policies
- In this chapter
- ACL policies overview
  - How the ACL policies are stored
  - Policy members
- ACL policy management
- FCS policies
- DCC policies
- SCC policies
  - Creating an SCC policy
- Authentication policy for fabric elements
- IP Filter policy
- Policy database distribution
- Management interface security
Maintaining the Switch Configuration File
- In this chapter
- Configuration settings
  - Configuration file format
- Configuration file backup
  - Uploading a configuration file in interactive mode
- Configuration file restoration
  - Restrictions
  - Configuration download without disabling a switch
- Configurations across a fabric
  - Downloading a configuration file from one switch to another same model switch
  - Security considerations
- Configuration management for Virtual Fabrics
- Brocade configuration form
Installing and Maintaining Firmware
- In this chapter
- Firmware download process overview
- Preparing for a firmware download
- Firmware download on switches
  - Switch firmware download process overview
- Firmware download on an enterprise-class platform
  - Enterprise-class platform firmware download process overview
- Firmware download from a USB device
- FIPS Support
- Test and restore firmware on switches
  - Testing a different firmware version on a switch
- Test and restore firmware on enterprise-class platforms
  - Testing different firmware versions on enterprise-class platforms
- Validating a firmware download
Managing Virtual Fabrics
- In this chapter
- Virtual Fabrics overview
- Logical switch overview
  - Default logical switch
  - Logical switches and fabric IDs
  - Port assignment in logical switches
  - Logical switches and connected devices
- Logical fabric overview
  - Logical fabric and ISLs
  - Logical fabric and ISL sharing
- Management model for logical switches
- Account management and Virtual Fabrics
- Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics
  - Supported port configurations in the Brocade 5100, 5300, and VA-40FC
  - Supported port configurations in the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S
  - Virtual Fabrics interaction with other Fabric OS features
- Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics
  - Restrictions on moving ports
- Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode
- Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode
- Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values
- Creating a logical switch or base switch
- Executing a command in a different logical fabric context
- Deleting a logical switch
- Adding and removing ports on a logical switch
- Displaying logical switch configuration
- Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch
- Changing a logical switch to a base switch
- Setting up IP addresses for a Virtual Fabric
- Removing an IP address for a Virtual Fabric
- Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs
- Changing the context to a different logical fabric
- Creating a logical fabric using XISLs
Administering Advanced Zoning
- In this chapter
- Special zones
- Zoning overview
- Broadcast zones
- Zone aliases
- Zone creation and maintenance
- Default zoning mode
  - Setting the default zoning mode
  - Viewing the current default zone access mode
- Zoning database size
- Zoning configurations
- Zone object maintenance
- Zoning configuration management
  - New switch or fabric additions
  - Fabric segmentation and zoning
- Security and zoning
- Zone merging scenarios
Traffic Isolation Zoning
- In this chapter
- Traffic Isolation Zoning overview
  - TI zone failover
  - FSPF routing rules and traffic isolation
- Enhanced TI zones
- Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers
- General rules for TI zones
- Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
  - Additional configuration rules for enhanced TI zones
  - Trunking with TI zones
- Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Virtual Fabric considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning
- Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics
- Creating a TI zone
  - Creating a TI zone in a base fabric
- Modifying TI zones
- Changing the state of a TI zone
- Deleting a TI zone
- Displaying TI zones
- Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure)
Administering NPIV
- In this chapter
- NPIV overview
- Configuring NPIV
- Enabling and disabling NPIV
- Viewing NPIV port configuration information
  - Viewing virtual PID login information
Interoperability for Merged SANs
- In this chapter
- Interoperability overview
- Connectivity solutions
- Domain ID offset modes
  - Configuring the Domain_ID offset
- McDATA Fabric mode configuration restrictions
- McDATA Open Fabric mode configuration restrictions
- Interoperability support for logical switches
- Switch configurations for interoperability
  - Enabling McDATA Open Fabric mode
  - Enabling McDATA Fabric mode
  - Enabling Brocade Native mode
- Zone management in interoperable fabrics
  - Zoning restrictions
  - Zone name restrictions
  - Zoning modes
  - Setting the safe zone mode on a stand-alone switch
  - Setting the safe zone mode fabric-wide
  - Disabling safe zone mode
  - Effective zone configuration
  - Saving the effective zone configuration to the Defined Database
- Frame Redirection in interoperable fabrics
- Traffic Isolation zones in interoperable fabrics
- Brocade SANtegrity implementation in mixed fabric SANS
  - Fabric OS Layer 2 Fabric Binding
- E_Port authentication between Fabric OS and M-EOS switches
  - Switch authentication policy
  - Dumb switch authentication
  - Authentication of EX_Port, VE_Port, and VEX_Port connections
  - Authentication of VE_Port-to-VE_Port connections
  - Authentication of VEX_Port-to-VE_Port connections
  - Authentication of VEX_Port-to-VEX_Port connections
- FCR SANtegrity
  - Fabric Binding behavior in a mixed fabric
  - Translate domains do not have Preferred or Insistent Domain ID behavior.
  - Configuring the preferred domain ID and the insistent domain ID
- FICON implementation in a mixed fabric
- Fabric OS version change restrictions in an interoperable environment
- Coordinated Hot Code Load
  - Bypassing the Coordinated HCL check on firmware download
  - Coordinated HCL on switches firmware downloads
  - Upgrade and downgrade considerations for HCL for interoperability
- McDATA-aware features
- McDATA-unaware features
  - M-EOS feature limitations in mixed fabrics
- Supported hardware in an interoperable environment
- Supported features in an interoperable environment
- Unsupported features in an interoperable environment
Managing Administrative Domains
- In this chapter
- Administrative Domains overview
- Admin Domain management for physical fabric administrators
- SAN management with Admin Domains
Administering Licensing
- In this chapter
- Licensing overview
- The Brocade 7800 Upgrade license
- ICL licensing
  - ICL 16-link license
  - ICL 8-link license
- 8G licensing
- Slot-based licensing
- Time-based licenses
  - Configupload and download considerations
  - Expired licenses
- Universal Time-based licenses
- Viewing installed licenses
- Activating a license
- Adding a licensed feature
- Removing a licensed feature
- Ports on Demand
Monitoring Fabric Performance
- In this chapter
- Advanced Performance Monitoring overview
  - Types of monitors
  - Virtual Fabrics considerations for Advanced Performance Monitoring
- End-to-end performance monitoring
- Frame monitoring
- ISL performance monitoring
- Top Talker monitors
- Trunk monitoring
- Displaying end-to-end and ISL monitor counters
- Clearing end-to-end and ISL monitor counters
- Saving and restoring monitor configurations
- Performance data collection
Optimizing Fabric Behavior
- In this chapter
- Adaptive Networking overview
- Ingress Rate Limiting
  - Limiting traffic from a particular device
  - Disabling ingress rate limiting
- QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization
  - License requirements for traffic prioritization
- QoS zones
- Setting traffic prioritization
- Setting traffic prioritization over FC routers
- Disabling QoS
- Bottleneck detection
- Enabling bottleneck detection on a switch
- Excluding a port from bottleneck detection
- Displaying bottleneck detection configuration details
- Changing bottleneck alert parameters
- Displaying bottleneck statistics
- Disabling bottleneck detection on a switch
Managing Trunking Connections
- In this chapter
- Trunking overview
  - Criteria for managing trunking connections
- Supported hardware
- Recommendations for trunking groups
- Basic trunk group configuration
- Trunking over long distance fabrics
- F_Port trunking
- F_Port masterless trunking
Managing Long Distance Fabrics
- In this chapter
- Long distance fabrics overview
- Extended Fabrics device limitations
- Long distance link modes
- Configuring an extended ISL
  - Enabling long distance when connecting to TDM devices
- Buffer credit management
- Buffer credit recovery
Using the FC-FC Routing Service
- In this chapter
- FC-FC routing service overview
  - Supported platforms for Fibre Channel routing
  - Supported configurations
- Integrated Routing
- Fibre Channel routing concepts
- Setting up the FC-FC routing service
  - Verifying the setup for FC-FC routing
- Backbone fabric IDs
  - Assigning backbone fabric IDs
- FCIP tunnel configuration
- Inter-fabric link configuration
  - Configuring an IFL for both edge and backbone connections
- FC Router port cost configuration
  - Port cost considerations
  - Setting router port cost for an EX_Port
- EX_Port frame trunking configuration
- LSAN zone configuration
- Proxy PID configuration
- Fabric parameter considerations
- Inter-fabric broadcast frames
- Resource monitoring
- FC-FC Routing and Virtual Fabrics
  - Logical switch configuration for FC routing
  - Backbone-to-edge routing with Virtual Fabrics
- Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FC-FC routing
  - How replacing port blades affects EX_Port configuration
- Displaying the range of output ports connected to xlate domains
M-EOS Migration Path to Fabric OS
- In this appendix
- M-EOS fabrics overview
- McDATA Mi10K interoperability
- Fabric configurations for interconnectivity
Inband Management
- In this appendix
- Inband Management overview
- Internal Ethernet devices
- IP address and routing management
- Examples of supported configurations
  - Configuring a Management Station on the same subnet
  - Configuring a Management Station on different subnets
Port Indexing
- In this appendix
- Port indexing on the Brocade 48000 director
- Port indexing on the Brocade DCX backbone
- Port indexing on the Brocade DCX-4S backbone
FIPS Support
- In this appendix
- FIPS overview
- Zeroization functions
  - Power-up self tests
  - Conditional tests
- FIPS mode configuration
  - LDAP in FIPS mode
  - LDAP certificates for FIPS mode
- Preparing the switch for FIPS
Hexadecimal
- Hexadecimal overview
  - Example conversion of the hexadecimal triplet Ox616000
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