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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......................................................................................................................................................................18

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.........................................................................................................................................................................25

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

Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System........................................................................................................30

4 Conguration Cloning...................................................................................................................................31

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