Administrator Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide..................................................................................................................... 34
Audience.................................................................................................................................... 34
Conventions.............................................................................................................................. 34
Information Symbols............................................................................................................... 35
Related Documents................................................................................................................. 35
2 Before You Start......................................................................................................................36
Operational Modes.................................................................................................................. 36
Standalone mode............................................................................................................... 36
VLT mode.............................................................................................................................36
Programmable MUX mode...............................................................................................36
Stacking mode.....................................................................................................................37
Full Switch mode................................................................................................................ 37
Default Settings.........................................................................................................................37
Other Auto-Configured Settings...........................................................................................38
Data Center Bridging Support............................................................................................... 38
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping.................................................................................. 39
iSCSI Operation.........................................................................................................................39
Link Aggregation.......................................................................................................................39
Link Tracking............................................................................................................................. 40
Configuring VLANs...................................................................................................................40
Uplink LAG........................................................................................................................... 40
Server-Facing LAGs............................................................................................................40
Where to Go From Here.........................................................................................................40
3 Configuration Fundamentals............................................................................................... 42
Accessing the Command Line...............................................................................................42
CLI Modes.................................................................................................................................. 43
Navigating CLI Modes....................................................................................................... 44
The do Command....................................................................................................................45
Undoing Commands............................................................................................................... 45
Obtaining Help..........................................................................................................................46
Entering and Editing Commands..........................................................................................46
Command History....................................................................................................................47
Filtering show Command Outputs....................................................................................... 47
Multiple Users in Configuration Mode.................................................................................49
4 Getting Started....................................................................................................................... 50
Configuration Guide
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