Deployment Guide

Supported topologies for ICL connections.................................................... 487
Mesh topology...................................................................................487
Core-edge topology...........................................................................489
Monitoring Fabric Performance............................................................................................. 491
Advanced Performance Monitoring overview................................................491
Types of monitors..............................................................................491
Restrictions for installing monitors.................................................... 492
Virtual Fabrics considerations for Advanced Performance
Monitoring....................................................................................492
Access Gateway considerations for Advanced Performance
Monitoring....................................................................................493
End-to-end performance monitoring............................................................. 493
Maximum number of EE monitors.....................................................493
Supported port configurations for EE monitors................................. 494
Adding EE monitors.......................................................................... 494
Setting a mask for an EE monitor..................................................... 495
Deleting EE monitors........................................................................ 496
Displaying EE monitor counters........................................................ 496
Clearing EE monitor counters........................................................... 497
Frame monitoring.......................................................................................... 497
License requirements for frame monitoring.......................................498
Creating frame types to be monitored...............................................498
Creating a frame monitor.................................................................. 499
Deleting frame types......................................................................... 499
Adding frame monitors to a port........................................................500
Removing frame monitors from a port...............................................500
Saving a frame monitor configuration............................................... 500
Displaying frame monitors.................................................................501
Clearing frame monitor counters.......................................................501
Top Talker monitors...................................................................................... 501
Top Talker monitors and FC-FC routing........................................... 503
Limitations of Top Talker monitors.................................................... 505
Adding a Top Talker monitor to a port (port mode)........................... 505
Adding Top Talker monitors on all switches in the fabric (fabric
mode).......................................................................................... 505
Displaying the top bandwidth-using flows on a port (port mode)...... 506
Displaying top talking flows for a given domain ID (fabric mode)......506
Deleting a Top Talker monitor on a port (port mode)........................ 506
Deleting all fabric mode Top Talker monitors....................................507
Trunk monitoring........................................................................................... 507
Trunk monitoring considerations....................................................... 507
Saving and restoring monitor configurations.................................................507
Performance data collection..........................................................................508
Managing Trunking Connections........................................................................................... 509
Trunking overview......................................................................................... 509
Types of trunking...............................................................................509
Masterless trunking........................................................................... 510
License requirements for trunking.....................................................510
Port groups for trunking.....................................................................511
Supported platforms for trunking...................................................................511
Supported configurations for trunking........................................................... 511
High Availability support for trunking.................................................512
Requirements for trunk groups......................................................................512
Recommendations for trunk groups.............................................................. 512
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