Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide (OL-16597-01, July 2009)

Locking the Fabric 488
Committing Changes 489
Discarding Changes 489
Clearing a Fabric Lock 489
Displaying CFS Distribution Status 489
Displaying Pending Changes 490
Displaying Session Status 490
About Contiguous Domain ID Assignments 490
Enabling Contiguous Domain ID Assignments 490
FC IDs 491
About Persistent FC IDs 491
Enabling the Persistent FC ID Feature 492
Persistent FC ID Configuration Guidelines 492
Configuring Persistent FC IDs 492
About Unique Area FC IDs for HBAs 493
Configuring Unique Area FC IDs for an HBA 493
About Persistent FC ID Selective Purging 494
Purging Persistent FC IDs 495
Verifying fcdomain Information 495
Default Fibre Channel Domain Settings 496
Configuring N Port Virtualization 497
Configuring N Port Virtualization 497
Information About NPV 497
NPV Overview 497
NPV Mode 498
Server Interfaces 498
NP Uplinks 498
FLOGI Operation 499
NPV Traffic Management 500
Automatic Uplink Selection 500
Traffic Maps 500
Disruptive Load Balancing 500
NPV Traffic Management Guidelines 501
NPV Guidelines and Limitations 501
Configuring NPV 502
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