Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide, NX-OS 4.0(1a)N1 (OL-16597-01, January 2009)

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 37 Configuring and Managing VSANs
Configuring VSANs
• Creating VSANs Statically, page 37-6
• About Port VSAN Membership, page 37-7
• Assigning Static Port VSAN Membership, page 37-7
• Displaying VSAN Static Membership, page 37-7
• About the Default VSAN, page 37-8
• About the Isolated VSAN, page 37-8
• Displaying Isolated VSAN Membership, page 37-8
• Operational State of a VSAN, page 37-9
• About Static VSAN Deletion, page 37-9
• Deleting Static VSANs, page 37-10
• About Load Balancing, page 37-10
• Configuring Load Balancing, page 37-10
• About Interop Mode, page 37-11
About VSAN Creation
A VSAN is in the operational state if the VSAN is active and at least one port is up. This state indicates
that traffic can pass through this VSAN. This state cannot be configured.
Creating VSANs Statically
You cannot configure any application-specific parameters for a VSAN before creating the VSAN.
To create VSANs, perform this task:
Command Purpose
Step 1
switch# configuration terminal
Enters configuration mode.
Step 2
switch(config)# vsan database
switch(config-vsan-db)#
Configures the database for a VSAN. Application
specific VSAN parameters cannot be configured
from this prompt.
Step 3
switch(config-vsan-db)# vsan vsan-id
Creates a VSAN with the specified ID if that
VSAN does not exist already.
Step 4
switch(config-vsan-db)# vsan vsan-id name
name
updated vsan 2
Updates the VSAN with the assigned name.
Step 5
switch(config-vsan-db)# vsan vsan-id
suspend
Suspends the selected VSAN.
Step 6
switch(config-vsan-db)# no vsan vsan-id
suspend
Negates the suspend command issued in the
previous step.
Step 7
switch(config-vsan-db)# end
switch#
Returns you to EXEC mode.