Users Guide
• Hardware Management— Used for out-of-band management of hardware infrastructure.
• FIP Snooping— Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Initialization Protocol (FIP) snooping provides
security mechanism that prevents unauthorized access and data transmission to a Fibre Channel (FC)
network.
The FIP VLAN Request is multicast to the destination MAC Address of ALL-FCF-MACs. The Source
Address for the VLAN Request is the ENode MAC and it is important to note that the frame is
transmitted without an 802.1Q (VLAN) tag
VLAN ID
A VLAN ID is a unique identifier that enables switching and routing of network traffic.
The VLAN ID must be a number between 1 and 4094. If using a flat network (no VLANs), type a value of 1.
Deleting a network
NOTE: You should not delete a network that is referenced in a template. This will affect the services
that will be deployed using this template.
To delete a network:
1. In the left pane, click Settings, and then click Networks.
The Networks page is displayed.
2. Click the network that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
3. Click OK when the confirmation message is displayed.
Related Links
Network types
Network types
Defining or editing existing network
Repositories
On the repositories page, you can perform the following operations::
• OS Image Repositories tab – Enables you to create OS Image Repositories.
• Firmware tab – Enables you to create Firmware Repositories.
Related Links
Understanding Firmware tab
OS Image repositories
OS Image repositories
The OS Image Repositories tab displays the following information:
• State— Displays the following states:
– Available — Indicates that the OS Image repository is downloaded and copied successfully on the
appliance.
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