Users Guide

16 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .386
TI zones within an edge fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .388
TI zones within a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389
Limitations of TI zones over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .390
Fabric-Level Traffic Isolation in a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . .390
Fabric-Level TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391
Failover behavior for Fabric-Level TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .392
Creating a separate TI zone for each path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .392
Creating a single TI zone for all paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
General rules for TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394
Traffic Isolation Zone violation handling for trunk ports . . . . .395
Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . . . . . .396
Additional configuration rules for enhanced TI zones. . . . . . .396
Trunking with TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397
Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . . . . .398
Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . .398
Virtual Fabrics considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . . .399
Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics . . . . .401
Creating a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402
Creating a TI zone in a base fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .404
Modifying TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .405
Changing the state of a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406
Deleting a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407
Displaying TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407
Troubleshooting TI zone routing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .408
Setting up TI zones over FCR (sample procedure) . . . . . . . . . . . . .409
Chapter 14 Optimizing Fabric Behavior
Adaptive Networking overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413
Ingress Rate Limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .414
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Limiting traffic from a particular device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415
Disabling Ingress Rate Limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415
QoS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415
License requirements for QoS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
CS_CTL-based frame prioritization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Supported configurations for CS_CTL-based frame
prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
High availability considerations for CS_CTL-based frame
prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Enabling CS_CTL-based frame prioritization on ports . . . . . . . 417
Disabling CS_CTL-based frame prioritization on ports . . . . . . 418
Using CS_CTL auto mode at the chassis level . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Considerations for using CS_CTL-based frame prioritization .418