Deployment Guide

Editing Fibre Channel Settings

From the Fibre Channel section of the Switching Layer-2 page, you can select the Fibre Channel (FC)

mode.

1. From the navigation menu, select Switching Layer-2.

The Switching Layer-2 page appears.

2. In the Fibre Channel section, in the Fibre Channel Mode field, click Edit.

The Fibre Channel dialog box appears.

3. For the Fibre Channel Mode setting, select one of the following:

• FIP Snooping Bridge (FSB) — Uses FCoE to inspect frames and applies policies based on frame

information.

NOTE: FSB is disabled for Flex IOM on M1000e and FN2210S SKU for FX2.

• NPIV Proxy Gateway (NPG) — Acts as an FC forwarder and does not support name service or

zoning.

• Fabric-Services (FPORT) — Supports name service and zoning. In the Domain ID field, enter a

number.

• Disabled — Select to disable Fibre Channel mode.

4. Click Apply.

Viewing Fibre Channel Details

From the Fibre Channel section of the Switching Layer-2 page, you can view additional Fibre Channel

settings. These settings can depend on the selected Fibre Channel mode.

1. From the navigation menu, select Switching Layer-2.

The Switching Layer-2 page appears.

2. In the Fibre Channel section, click View Details.

A dialog box appears. The information that appears depends on the selected Fibre Channel mode.

For FIP Snooping Bridge (FCoe) mode, this dialog box displays:

• MAC Address and Interface of the End Node.

• MAC Address, Interface, and VLAN of the FCF

• FCoE Address, FC ID, Port WWPN, and Port WWNN of Session Info.

For NPIV Proxy Gateway, this dialog box displays:

• FCoE Sessions tab

– MAC Address and Interface of the End Node.

– MAC Address, Interface, and VLAN of the FCF

– FCoE Address, FC ID, Port WWPN, and Port WWNN of Session Info.

• FCoE Map

– FCoE Map

– Fabric ID

– VLAN ID