Reference Guide

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OS10# show fcoe enode
Enode MAC Enode Interface VLAN FCFs Sessions
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Terminology
ENode End Node or FCoE node
FC Fibre Channel
FC ID A 3-byte address used by FC to identify the end points
FC Map A 3-byte prex congured per VLAN, used to frame FCoE MAC address
FCF Fibre Channel Forwarder
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCoE MAC Unique MAC address used to identify an FCoE session. This is a combination of FC ID and FC Map.
FIP FCoE Initialization Protocol
NPG NPIV Proxy Gateway
NPIV N_Port ID Virtualization
Virtual fabric
Virtual fabrics (vfabric) divide a physical fabric into logical fabrics.
Manage each vfabric independently. The fabric ID identies each vfabric.
You can congure only one vfabric in the F_Port mode and multiple vfabrics in the NPG mode.
The F_Port and NPG modes are mutually exclusive.
If you have already congured a vfabric in F_Port mode, while conguring vfabrics in NPG mode, disable the F_Port mode. The existing
vfabric is removed when you disable F_Port mode and you need to congure new vfabrics in NPG mode. If you are moving from NPG
mode to F_Port mode, then disable the NPG mode and create new vfabric in F_Port mode.
Zoning allows you to increase network security by partitioning the devices connected to the vfabric into subsets. Partitioning restricts
unnecessary interactions between the members of vfabric. See also Fibre Channel zoning.
After conguring a vfabric ID, you can create a name, associate a VLAN to carry trac to the vfabric, congure FCoE parameters,
congure the default zone, and activate the zoneset.
NOTE
: Do not associate a VLAN that is already in use, as a vfabric VLAN.
Congure vfabric in F_Port mode
1 Congure a vfabric using the vfabric fabric-ID command in CONFIGURATION mode. The switch enters vfabric
CONFIGURATION mode. Enter the following commands.
2 Associate a VLAN ID to the vfabric with the vlan vlan-ID command.
3 Add an FC map with the fcoe fcmap fc-map command.
4 Activate a zoneset using the zoneset activate zoneset-name command.
5 Allow access to all logged-in members in the absence of active zoneset conguration using the zone default-zone permit
command. The logged-in members are the Fibre channel nodes that are successfully logged into the FC fabric, identied by the
vfabric.
Fibre channel
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