Users Guide

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............................................................................................................................................. 21
Ensuring the FN IOM system is in Standalone Mode............................................................................................22
Congure Interfaces and Port Channel...................................................................................................................23
Verifying the Congurations..................................................................................................................................... 23
3 Conguration Fundamentals........................................................................................................................ 25
Accessing the Command Line........................................................................................................................................25
CLI Modes.........................................................................................................................................................................26
Navigating CLI Modes............................................................................................................................................... 26
The do Command.............................................................................................................................................................27
Undoing Commands........................................................................................................................................................ 28
Obtaining Help..................................................................................................................................................................28
Entering and Editing Commands....................................................................................................................................28
Command History............................................................................................................................................................29
Filtering show Command Outputs.................................................................................................................................29
Multiple Users in Conguration Mode............................................................................................................................31
Conguring a Unique Host Name on the System.........................................................................................................31
Enabling Secured CLI Mode............................................................................................................................................ 31
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