Concept Guide

61 PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator........................................................................................................... 883
I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode.....................................................................................883
Conguring and Changing to PMUX Mode............................................................................................................... 883
Conguring the Commands without a Separate User Account.............................................................................. 884
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)........................................................................................................................................... 884
Overview...................................................................................................................................................................884
Setting up VLT......................................................................................................................................................... 885
VLT Terminology...................................................................................................................................................... 886
Congure Virtual Link Trunking..............................................................................................................................886
Verifying a VLT Conguration................................................................................................................................ 890
VLT Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................................... 893
Troubleshooting VLT................................................................................................................................................895
62 NPIV Proxy Gateway................................................................................................................................897
NPIV Proxy Gateway Conguration............................................................................................................................ 897
NPIV Proxy Gateway Operations and Capabilities.....................................................................................................897
NPIV Proxy Gateway Operation ............................................................................................................................897
NPIV Proxy Gateway: Protocol Services.............................................................................................................. 898
NPIV Proxy Gateway Functionality....................................................................................................................... 898
NPIV Proxy Gateway: Terms and Denitions....................................................................................................... 898
Conguring an NPIV Proxy Gateway..........................................................................................................................900
Enabling Fibre Channel Capability on the Switch.................................................................................................901
Creating a DCB Map ...............................................................................................................................................901
Applying a DCB Map on Server-facing Ethernet Ports ..................................................................................... 902
Creating an FCoE VLAN.........................................................................................................................................903
Creating an FCoE Map .......................................................................................................................................... 903
Applying an FCoE Map on Server-facing Ethernet Ports.................................................................................. 904
Applying an FCoE Map on Fabric-facing FC Ports............................................................................................. 905
Sample Conguration..............................................................................................................................................905
Displaying NPIV Proxy Gateway Information............................................................................................................. 906
show interfaces status Command Example......................................................................................................... 907
show fcoe-map Command Examples .................................................................................................................. 908
show qos dcb-map Command Examples ............................................................................................................909
show npiv devices brief Command Example....................................................................................................... 909
show npiv devices Command Example ................................................................................................................ 910
show fc switch Command Example .......................................................................................................................911
63 Upgrade Procedures.................................................................................................................................912
Get Help with Upgrades................................................................................................................................................ 912
64 Virtual LANs (VLANs).............................................................................................................................. 913
Default VLAN.................................................................................................................................................................. 913
Port-Based VLANs...................................................................................................................................................914
VLANs and Port Tagging......................................................................................................................................... 914
Conguration Task List............................................................................................................................................ 915
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