Reference Guide

The range of the slot (stack-unit) numbers is from 0 to 11. The range of the port numbers is from 0 to
47.
NOTE: You can install an FC module only in expansion slot 0.
2. Configure the speed of an FC port.
INTERFACE FIBRE_CHANNEL mode
speed {auto | 2G | 4G | 8G}
The valid values are: 2, 4 Gbps or 8 Gbps or autosensing.
The default is an FC port autosenses the speed of a peer FC port.
3. Enable the Fibre Channel port.
INTERFACE FIBRE_CHANNEL mode
no shutdown
Displaying Fibre Channel Information
To display information on switch-wide and interface-specific Fibre Channel operation, use the following
commands.
Examples of the show commands follow this table.
Command Description
show interfaces
fibrechannel
Displays the configuration of an FC interface.
clear counters
fibrechannel slot/
port
Clears the statistics (counters) the show interfaces fibrechannel command
output displays for a specified FC port.
show fc switch Displays the switch configuration for Fibre Channel capability.
show running-
config | grep
feature
Displays the currently running configuration feature.
show running-
config | grep
feature
Displays the currently running configuration for the switch-mode.
Example of the show interfaces fibrechannel Command
Dell#show interfaces fibrechannel 0/0
FibreChannel 0/0 is up, FC link is down
Non-qualified pluggable media present, SFP+ type is FC-8GBPS-SR
Wavelength is 850nm
SFP+ receive power reading is -3.6021dBm
Interface index is 33719304
MTU 2148 bytes
LineSpeed auto
Port type is Undefined, Max BB Credits is 16
WWN is 20:00:5c:f9:dd:ef:24:40, FC-ID is 020000
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 2d11h27m
Statistics:
374
Fibre Channel Interface