Deployment Guide

25 PMUX Mode of the IO Aggregator...........................................................................................................285
I/O Aggregator (IOA) Programmable MUX (PMUX) Mode.....................................................................................285
Conguring and Changing to PMUX Mode............................................................................................................... 285
Conguring the Commands without a Separate User Account.............................................................................. 286
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT)........................................................................................................................................... 286
Overview...................................................................................................................................................................286
Setting up VLT..........................................................................................................................................................287
Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) in PMUX Mode......................................................................................................... 288
VLT Terminology...................................................................................................................................................... 290
Congure Virtual Link Trunking...............................................................................................................................291
Verifying a VLT Conguration................................................................................................................................ 295
Additional VLT Sample Congurations.................................................................................................................. 297
Troubleshooting VLT................................................................................................................................................298
26 FC Flex IO Modules................................................................................................................................. 300
FC Flex IO Modules.......................................................................................................................................................300
Understanding and Working of the FC Flex IO Modules.......................................................................................... 300
FC Flex IO Modules Overview............................................................................................................................... 300
FC Flex IO Module Capabilities and Operations................................................................................................... 301
Guidelines for Working with FC Flex IO Modules................................................................................................ 302
Processing of Data Trac...................................................................................................................................... 304
Installing and Conguring the Switch....................................................................................................................304
Interconnectivity of FC Flex IO Modules with Cisco MDS Switches................................................................306
Fibre Channel over Ethernet for FC Flex IO Modules...............................................................................................308
27 FC FLEXIO FPORT.................................................................................................................................. 309
FC FLEXIO FPORT........................................................................................................................................................309
Conguring Switch Mode to FCF Port Mode.............................................................................................................310
Name Server....................................................................................................................................................................311
FCoE Maps...................................................................................................................................................................... 311
Creating an FCoE Map.................................................................................................................................................. 312
Zoning.............................................................................................................................................................................. 313
Creating Zone and Adding Members........................................................................................................................... 314
Creating Zone Alias and Adding Members.................................................................................................................. 314
Creating Zonesets.......................................................................................................................................................... 314
Activating a Zoneset...................................................................................................................................................... 315
Displaying the Fabric Parameters................................................................................................................................. 315
28 NPIV Proxy Gateway................................................................................................................................ 318
Supported Modes...........................................................................................................................................................318
NPIV Proxy Gateway Conguration............................................................................................................................. 318
NPIV Proxy Gateway Operations and Capabilities..................................................................................................... 318
NPIV Proxy Gateway Operation ............................................................................................................................ 319
NPIV Proxy Gateway: Protocol Services............................................................................................................... 319
NPIV Proxy Gateway Functionality........................................................................................................................ 319
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