Brocade EZSwitchSetup Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 and Brocade 200E, 3250, 4100, 4900, 5000 (53-1000441-01, June 2007)

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Chapter
2
Setting Up Your Switch
This chapter describes how to set up your switch for the first time, using EZSwitchSetup. It contains
the following sections:
• Install and Run the EZSwitchSetup Wizard. . . . . . . . . 5
• Power Up and Connect Cables to the Switch . . . . . . . 7
• Set Up the Switch IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
• Configure the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
• Select Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
• Connect Devices and Complete the Setup . . . . . . . . 17
You can run EZSwitchSetup on a host computer or you can use a different computer that is not part
of the SAN, a laptop for example. In this chapter the computer running EZSwitchSetup will be called
the “setup computer” and it must have an ethernet connection. It could be the same computer you
are using as a host in the SAN.
As you follow the instructions in this chapter, sometimes you will be directed to the switch and its
physical setup and sometimes you will be directed to the EZSwitchSetup application running on the
setup computer.
Install and Run the EZSwitchSetup Wizard
The first step in setting up your switch is to install the EZSwitchSetup wizard, which is located on
the EZSwitchSetup installation CD.
To install the EZSwitchSetup wizard
1. Insert the EZSwitchSetup CD into the CD-ROM drive of your setup computer.
The installer will autostart in about a minute.
2. Install EZSwitchSetup following the onscreen directions.
3. Click Done on the last screen (shown in Figure 3 on page 6) to exit the installer.
On Windows, EZSwitchSetup starts automatically after it is installed. If it does not, see “To
launch the EZSwitchSetup wizard” on page 6 to launch the wizard manually.