Reference Guide

20 Uplink Failure Detection (UFD)...................................................................................191
Supported Modes............................................................................................................................................................191
Feature Description......................................................................................................................................................... 191
How Uplink Failure Detection Works............................................................................................................................... 192
UFD and NIC Teaming.....................................................................................................................................................193
Important Points to Remember.......................................................................................................................................194
Uplink Failure Detection (SMUX mode)...........................................................................................................................194
Conguring Uplink Failure Detection (PMUX mode)....................................................................................................... 195
Clearing a UFD-Disabled Interface (in PMUX mode).......................................................................................................197
Displaying Uplink Failure Detection..................................................................................................................................198
Sample Conguration: Uplink Failure Detection...............................................................................................................199
21 PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator............................................................................. 201
I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode.............................................................................................201
Conguring and Changing to PMUX Mode.....................................................................................................................201
Conguring the Commands without a Separate User Account...................................................................................... 202
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT).............................................................................................................................................202
Overview..................................................................................................................................................................202
Setting up VLT......................................................................................................................................................... 203
VLT Terminology.......................................................................................................................................................204
Congure Virtual Link Trunking.................................................................................................................................204
Verifying a VLT Conguration...................................................................................................................................208
VLT Sample Congurations.......................................................................................................................................210
Troubleshooting VLT................................................................................................................................................. 212
22 NPIV Proxy Gateway..................................................................................................214
NPIV Proxy Gateway Conguration................................................................................................................................ 214
NPIV Proxy Gateway Operations and Capabilities........................................................................................................... 214
NPIV Proxy Gateway Operation ............................................................................................................................... 214
NPIV Proxy Gateway: Protocol Services................................................................................................................... 215
NPIV Proxy Gateway Functionality........................................................................................................................... 215
NPIV Proxy Gateway: Terms and Denitions.............................................................................................................215
Conguring an NPIV Proxy Gateway...............................................................................................................................217
Enabling Fibre Channel Capability on the Switch.......................................................................................................218
Creating a DCB Map ................................................................................................................................................218
Applying a DCB Map on Server-facing Ethernet Ports .............................................................................................219
Creating an FCoE VLAN...........................................................................................................................................220
Creating an FCoE Map ............................................................................................................................................220
Applying an FCoE Map on Server-facing Ethernet Ports.......................................................................................... 221
Applying an FCoE Map on Fabric-facing FC Ports.................................................................................................... 221
Sample Conguration...............................................................................................................................................222
Displaying NPIV Proxy Gateway Information.................................................................................................................. 223
show interfaces status Command Example..............................................................................................................223
show fcoe-map Command Examples ...................................................................................................................... 224
show qos dcb-map Command Examples .................................................................................................................225
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