Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278
TI within an edge fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279
TI within a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .280
Limitations of TI zones over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281
General rules for TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281
Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . . . . . .282
Additional configuration rules for enhanced TI zones. . . . . . .283
Trunking with TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . . . . .283
Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . .284
Virtual Fabric considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning. . . . . . . .284
Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics . . . . .286
Creating a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287
Creating a TI zone in a base fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
Modifying TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290
Changing the state of a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
Deleting a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292
Displaying TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292
Troubleshooting TI zone routing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294
Chapter 13 Bottleneck Detection
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299
Bottleneck detection overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299
Types of bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
How bottlenecks are reported. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
Using alerting parameters to determine whether alerts are
generated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301
Supported configurations for bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . . . .302
Limitations of bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302
High availability considerations for bottleneck detection . . . .302
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for bottleneck
detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302
Trunking considerations for bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . .303
Virtual Fabrics considerations for bottleneck detection . . . . .303
Access Gateway considerations for bottleneck detection. . . .303
Advanced bottleneck detection settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Enabling bottleneck detection on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304
Excluding a port from bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
Displaying bottleneck detection configuration details . . . . . . . . . .305
Changing bottleneck parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Displaying bottleneck statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309