Administrator Guide

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Contents

1 About this Guide.............................................................................................................13

Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................13

Information Symbols..........................................................................................................................................................13

Related Documents...........................................................................................................................................................14

2 Before You Start............................................................................................................ 15

IOA Operational Modes..................................................................................................................................................... 15

Standalone mode........................................................................................................................................................ 15

VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................15

Programmable MUX mode..........................................................................................................................................15

Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................ 16

Default Settings................................................................................................................................................................ 16

Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................... 16

Data Center Bridging Support........................................................................................................................................... 17

FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping................................................................................................................................17

iSCSI Operation.................................................................................................................................................................17

Link Aggregation............................................................................................................................................................... 17

Link Tracking..................................................................................................................................................................... 18

Conguring VLANs........................................................................................................................................................... 18

Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 18

Server-Facing LAGs....................................................................................................................................................18

Where to Go From Here....................................................................................................................................................18

3 Conguration Fundamentals......................................................................................... 20

Accessing the Command Line.......................................................................................................................................... 20

CLI Modes........................................................................................................................................................................20

Navigating CLI Modes.................................................................................................................................................21

The do Command.............................................................................................................................................................22

Undoing Commands.........................................................................................................................................................22

Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................23

Entering and Editing Commands...................................................................................................................................... 23

Command History.............................................................................................................................................................24

Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................... 24

Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...............................................................................................................................25

4 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..........................................................................................26

Supported Modes.............................................................................................................................................................26

Ethernet Enhancements in Data Center Bridging............................................................................................................. 26

Priority-Based Flow Control..............................................................................................................................................27

Conguring Priority-Based Flow Control.................................................................................................................... 28

Enhanced Transmission Selection.....................................................................................................................................30