Deployment Guide

Port decommissioning.........................................................................74
Setting network interface modes.........................................................75
Setting port speeds............................................................................. 76
Setting all ports on a switch to the same speed..................................76
Setting port speed for a port octet.......................................................77
Setting maximum auto-negotiated port speed.................................... 77
Blade terminology and compatibility................................................................78
CP blades............................................................................................81
Core blades.........................................................................................82
Port and application blade compatibility..............................................82
Enabling and disabling blades........................................................................ 83
Enabling blades...................................................................................83
Disabling blades..................................................................................83
Blade swapping...............................................................................................84
How blades are swapped....................................................................84
Swapping blades.................................................................................86
Disabling switches...........................................................................................87
Power management........................................................................................ 87
Powering off a port blade or core blade.............................................. 87
Powering on a port blade or core blade.............................................. 88
Equipment status............................................................................................ 88
Checking switch operation.................................................................. 88
Verifying High Availability features (Backbones only)......................... 88
Verifying fabric connectivity.................................................................89
Verifying device connectivity............................................................... 89
Viewing the switch status policy threshold values...............................90
Setting the switch status policy threshold values................................ 90
Audit log configuration.....................................................................................91
Verifying host syslog prior to configuring the audit log........................92
Configuring an audit log for specific event classes............................. 93
Duplicate PWWN handling during device login...............................................93
Setting the behavior for handling duplicate PWWNs.......................... 95
Forward error correction..................................................................................95
FEC Limitations...................................................................................96
Enabling forward error correction........................................................96
Disabling forward error correction....................................................... 97
Enabling or disabling FEC for long-distance ports ............................. 97
Routing Traffic........................................................................................................................ 99
Routing overview.............................................................................................99
Paths and route selection....................................................................99
FSPF................................................................................................. 100
Fibre Channel NAT........................................................................... 101
Inter-switch links............................................................................................101
Buffer credits..................................................................................... 102
Congestion versus over-subscription................................................ 103
Virtual channels.................................................................................103
Gateway links................................................................................................104
Configuring a link through a gateway................................................105
Routing policies.............................................................................................106
Notes ................................................................................................106
Displaying the current routing policy................................................. 106
Port-based routing ............................................................................106
Exchange-based routing................................................................... 107
Device-based routing........................................................................ 107
Dynamic Path Selection.................................................................... 107
Route selection............................................................................................. 107
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