Configuration manual

• With both FC Flex IO modules present in the MXL or I/O Aggregator switches, the power supply
requirement and maximum thermal output are the same as these parameters needed for the M1000
chassis.
• Each port on the FC Flex IO module contains status indicators to denote the link status and
transmission activity. For traffic that is being transmitted, the port LED shows a blinking green light.
The Link LED displays solid green when a proper link with the peer is established. If there is no
connectivity, the LEDs are not lit
• The MXL and IOA switches continue to operate in FCoE Gateway mode even if connectivity to a ToR
switch does not exist.
• The I/O Aggregator examines whether the FC Flex IO module is inserted into the switch. When the FC
Flex IO module is present during the boot process, the switch runs in FCoE NPIV gateway mode by
default.
• When an FC Flex IO module is present in the I/O Aggregator, the software autoconfigures the DCB
settings on the ports that support DCB and does not retrieve these settings from the ToR switch.
• Active fabric manager (AFM) is compatible with FC Flex IO modules.
• All SNMP MIBs that are supported for MXL and IOA switches apply equally for FC Flex IO modules. The
interface MIB indicates the FC interface when you install the FC flex IO module. The interface MIB
statistical counters compute and display the FC interface metrics.
• When the Dell Networking OS sends FC frames (the initial FLOGI or FLOGO messages), or converts
FLOGI to FDISC messages or processes any internally generated FC frames, the software computes
and verifies the FC cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value before sending the frame to FC ports.
• Fabric worldwide name (WWN) verification is available for eight FC ports. Single-switching WWN
capability is provided when the switch operates in NPIV mode.
• With FC Flex IO modules, you can connect the IOA in Simple MUX mode to a single fabric.
• With FC Flex IO modules on an IOA, the FC port speed is set to auto. The following parameters are
automatically configured on the ENode facing and FC ports
• Description: SAN_FABRIC
• Fabric-id: 1002
• Fcoe-vlan: 1002
• Fc-map: 0x0efc00
• Fcf-priority: 128
• Fka-adv-period: 8000mSec
• Keepalive: enable
• Vlan priority: 3
• On an IOA, the FCoE virtual local area network (VLAN) is automatically configured.
• With FC Flex IO modules on an IOA, the following DCB maps are applied on all of the ENode facing
ports.
• dcb-map: SAN_DCB_MAP
• priority-group 0 bandwidth 30 pfc off
• priority-group 1 bandwidth 30 pfc off
• priority-group 2 bandwidth 40 pfc on
• priority-pgid 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
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