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Contents

1 About this Guide.............................................................................................................14

Audience........................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Conventions......................................................................................................................................................................14

Information Symbols..........................................................................................................................................................14

Related Documents...........................................................................................................................................................15

2 Before You Start............................................................................................................ 16

Operational Modes............................................................................................................................................................16

Standalone mode........................................................................................................................................................ 16

VLT mode....................................................................................................................................................................16

Programmable MUX mode..........................................................................................................................................16

Stacking mode............................................................................................................................................................ 17

Default Settings................................................................................................................................................................ 17

Other Auto-Congured Settings....................................................................................................................................... 17

Data Center Bridging Support...........................................................................................................................................18

FCoE Connectivity and FIP Snooping............................................................................................................................... 18

iSCSI Operation.................................................................................................................................................................18

Link Aggregation............................................................................................................................................................... 18

Link Tracking..................................................................................................................................................................... 19

Conguring VLANs........................................................................................................................................................... 19

Uplink LAG..................................................................................................................................................................19

Server-Facing LAGs....................................................................................................................................................19

Where to Go From Here....................................................................................................................................................19

Deploying FN I/O Module.................................................................................................................................................20

Conguration Examples..............................................................................................................................................20

Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode.................................................................................................. 22

Congure Interfaces and Port Channel.......................................................................................................................22

Verifying the Congurations....................................................................................................................................... 23

3 Conguration Fundamentals..........................................................................................24

Accessing the Command Line.......................................................................................................................................... 24

CLI Modes........................................................................................................................................................................24

Navigating CLI Modes................................................................................................................................................ 25

The do Command.............................................................................................................................................................26

Undoing Commands.........................................................................................................................................................26

Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................27

Entering and Editing Commands.......................................................................................................................................27

Command History.............................................................................................................................................................28

Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................... 28

Multiple Users in Conguration Mode...............................................................................................................................29

4 Data Center Bridging (DCB)..........................................................................................30