Users Guide

Table Of Contents
Chapter 11: PowerEdge MX Ethernet I/O modules..................................................................... 309
Operating modes.............................................................................................................................................................309
Changing operating modes.............................................................................................................................................311
Restrictions........................................................................................................................................................................ 311
Port groups on I/O modules.......................................................................................................................................... 311
Double-density QSFP28 interfaces..............................................................................................................................311
Virtual ports.......................................................................................................................................................................314
Single-density QSFP28 interfaces...............................................................................................................................316
Server-facing interfaces................................................................................................................................................ 318
Replace MX Ethernet I/O modules............................................................................................................................. 319
Deployment instructions.......................................................................................................................................... 319
Replace an IOM in Full-Switch VLT.......................................................................................................................319
Replace an IOM in SmartFabric.............................................................................................................................320
View SmartFabric Services configuration.................................................................................................................323
Chapter 12: Fibre Channel..........................................................................................................324
Fibre Channel over Ethernet........................................................................................................................................325
Configure FIP snooping........................................................................................................................................... 325
Terminology...................................................................................................................................................................... 327
Virtual fabric..................................................................................................................................................................... 327
Fibre Channel zoning......................................................................................................................................................329
F_Port on Ethernet......................................................................................................................................................... 331
Pinning FCoE traffic to a specific port of a port-channel..................................................................................... 331
Sample FSB configuration on VLT network........................................................................................................333
Sample FC Switch configuration on VLT network............................................................................................335
Sample FSB configuration on non-VLT network............................................................................................... 337
Sample FC Switch configuration on non-VLT network................................................................................... 339
Multi-hop FIP-snooping bridge....................................................................................................................................340
Configuration notes...................................................................................................................................................341
Configure multi-hop FSB..........................................................................................................................................341
Verify multi-hop FSB configuration...................................................................................................................... 347
Sample Multi-hop FSB configuration................................................................................................................... 348
Configuration guidelines.................................................................................................................................................361
NPIV Proxy Gateway cascading..................................................................................................................................362
Support for untagged VLAN in FCoE.........................................................................................................................364
Rebalance FC sessions (NPG).....................................................................................................................................364
Load balancing after system reboot...........................................................................................................................365
NPG rebalance topology......................................................................................................................................... 365
NPG switch configurations.....................................................................................................................................365
Example: Manual rebalance trigger.......................................................................................................................367
Equivalent RESTCONF request for the rebalancing CLIs...............................................................................369
F_Port commands.......................................................................................................................................................... 369
fc alias..........................................................................................................................................................................370
fc zone.........................................................................................................................................................................370
fc zoneset................................................................................................................................................................... 370
feature fc..................................................................................................................................................................... 371
member (alias)............................................................................................................................................................ 371
member (zone).......................................................................................................................................................... 372
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