Concept Guide

Contents
1 About this Guide........................................................................................................................................... 15
Audience............................................................................................................................................................................ 15
Conventions...................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Information Symbols.........................................................................................................................................................15
Related Documents.......................................................................................................................................................... 16
2 Before You Start........................................................................................................................................... 17
Operational Modes............................................................................................................................................................17
Standalone mode........................................................................................................................................................ 17
VLT mode.....................................................................................................................................................................17
Programmable MUX mode........................................................................................................................................ 17
Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................ 18
Default Settings................................................................................................................................................................ 18
Other Auto-Congured Settings.................................................................................................................................... 18
Data Center Bridging Support.........................................................................................................................................19
FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................19
iSCSI Operation.................................................................................................................................................................19
Link Aggregation............................................................................................................................................................... 19
Link Tracking.....................................................................................................................................................................20
Conguring VLANs.......................................................................................................................................................... 20
Uplink LAG.................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Server-Facing LAGs.................................................................................................................................................. 20
Where to Go From Here..................................................................................................................................................20
Deploying FN I/O Module................................................................................................................................................21
Conguration Examples............................................................................................................................................ 22
Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode............................................................................................23
Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................24
Verifying the Congurations..................................................................................................................................... 24
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 26
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................26
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................27
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 27
The do Command............................................................................................................................................................ 28
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 29
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................29
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................29
Command History............................................................................................................................................................30
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................30
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...........................................................................................................................32
Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................32
Enabling Secured CLI Mode........................................................................................................................................... 32
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