Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual
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Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
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Persistent ALPA policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Persistent ALPA device data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Clearing ALPA values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Persistent ALPA policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Failover with port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Failover with device mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port . . . . .54
Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group . . .54
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover
policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway. . . . . . . . . . .55
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port . . . .56
Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group . . . 57
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback
policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port
monitoring) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Trunking in Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
How trunking works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Configuring trunking on the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Configuration management for trunk areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Enabling trunking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Disabling F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Monitoring trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AG trunking considerations for the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Trunking considerations for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . .65
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for trunking in
Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
QoS: Ingress rate limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Adaptive
Networking in AG mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway considerations . . . . .67
Per-Port NPIV login limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Setting the login limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Advanced Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
End-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Frame monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Limitations for using APM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Considerations for the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Policy and feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Fabric OS command support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Considerations for the Brocade 6505 and 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72