Concept Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide...........................................................................................................................................33
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................33
Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................33
Information Symbols........................................................................................................................................................33
Related Documents......................................................................................................................................................... 34
2 Before You Start.......................................................................................................................................... 35
Operational Modes...........................................................................................................................................................35
Standalone mode....................................................................................................................................................... 35
VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................35
Programmable MUX mode....................................................................................................................................... 35
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................36
Full Switch mode........................................................................................................................................................36
Default Settings............................................................................................................................................................... 36
Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................37
Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................ 37
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping........................................................................................................................... 37
iSCSI Operation................................................................................................................................................................ 37
Link Aggregation.............................................................................................................................................................. 38
Link Tracking.....................................................................................................................................................................38
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 38
Server-Facing LAGs.................................................................................................................................................. 38
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................39
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 40
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................40
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................40
Navigating CLI Modes................................................................................................................................................41
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 42
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................43
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................43
Command History............................................................................................................................................................ 44
Filtering show Command Outputs................................................................................................................................. 44
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................45
4 Getting Started............................................................................................................................................47
Console Access................................................................................................................................................................48
Serial Console.............................................................................................................................................................48
External Serial Port with a USB Connector............................................................................................................50
Accessing the CLI Interface and Running Scripts Using SSH....................................................................................50
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