Document Outline

• Title Page
• Preface
  • Audience
  • Conventions
    • Command conventions
    • GUI conventions
    • Symbols
    • Network topology icons
    • Port numbering in examples
  • Obtaining documentation
  • Technical support
  • Documentation feedback
• Contents
• FCoE overview
  • Storage area network
  • FC SAN
  • FC protocol
    • Basic concepts
      • WWN
      • FC address
      • Port modes
    • Communication flow
    • VSAN
    • FC zone
  • FCoE
    • Basic concepts
      • VFC interface and VN interface
      • FIP protocol
      • FCoE frames
    • How FCoE works
      • Procedure for receiving and sending FC frames over Ethernet
      • How FIP works
  • FCoE modes
    • FCF mode
    • NPV mode
    • Transit mode
  • Protocols and standards
• Configuring an FCoE mode
  • FCoE features supported in different FCoE modes
  • Configuration procedure
• Configuring VFC interfaces and FIP
  • VFC interfaces and FIP configuration task list
  • Configuring a VFC interface
  • Enabling FCoE for a VLAN and mapping a VSAN to the VLAN
    • Configuration restrictions and guidelines
    • Configuration procedure
  • Configuring the FC-MAP value
  • Configuring the FKA advertisement period value
  • Configuring the FCF priority
    • Configuring the system FCF priority
    • Configuring the VFC interface FCF priority
  • Displaying and maintaining VFC interfaces and FIP
  • VFC interfaces and FIP configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
• Configuring FIP snooping
  • Overview
    • FIP snooping network diagram
    • How FIP snooping works
      • Establishing FIP snooping rules
      • Controlling forwarding of FCoE frames
  • FIP snooping configuration task list
  • Enabling FIP snooping
  • Configuring the operating mode of an Ethernet interface
  • Configuring the FC-MAP value
  • Displaying and maintaining FIP snooping
  • FIP snooping configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Setting up a fabric
  • Overview
    • Principal switch selection
    • Domain ID assignment
    • FC address assignment
  • Fabric setup configuration task list
    • Building a fabric statically
    • Building a fabric dynamically
  • Enabling or disabling the fabric configuration function
  • Setting a fabric name
  • Setting the switch priority
  • Configuring the allowed domain ID list
  • Configuring a domain ID for a switch
  • Configuring the mapping between the N_Port WWN and an FC address
  • Configuring the fabric timers
    • Configuring the fabric timers in system view
    • Configuring the fabric timers in VSAN view
  • Configuring the fabric reconfiguration
    • Configuring the auto fabric reconfiguration function
    • Manually initiating the fabric reconfiguration
  • Configuring a VFC interface to reject incoming RCF requests
  • Configuring RSCN aggregation
    • RSCN overview
    • Overview of RSCN aggregation
    • Configuration procedure
  • Configuring and obtaining FC4 information of nodes
    • Enabling auto discovery of SCSI-FCP information
    • Configuring the default FC4 information for a node
  • Displaying and maintaining a fabric
  • Static fabric building configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
  • Dynamic fabric building configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Configuring VSAN
  • Overview
    • VSAN fundamentals
      • Trunk VSAN in an FC network
      • Trunk VSAN in an FCoE network
  • Creating a VSAN
  • Configuring a trunk VSAN
  • Displaying and maintaining VSAN
  • VSAN configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration considerations
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Configuring FC routing and forwarding
  • Overview
    • Routing table and FIB table
      • Routing table contents
      • FIB table contents
    • Direct routes
    • Static routes
    • FSPF routes
      • Basic concepts
      • FSPF packet types
      • How FSPF works
  • Configuring static routes for FC
    • Configuration restrictions and guidelines
    • Configuration procedure
  • Configuring FSPF
    • FSPF configuration task list
    • Enabling FSPF
    • Configuring the shortest SPF calculation interval
    • Configuring the minimum LSR receiving interval
    • Configuring the minimum LSR refresh interval
    • Configuring the FSPF cost for an interface
    • Configuring the hello interval for an interface
    • Configuring the dead interval for an interface
    • Configuring the LSR retransmission interval for interfaces
    • Disabling FSPF for an interface
    • Configuring FSPF GR
      • Configuring the GR restarter
      • Configuring the GR helper
  • Displaying and maintaining FC routing and forwarding
  • Static FC routing configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
  • FSPF configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Configuring FC zones
  • Overview
    • Zone database
      • Zone database structure
      • Active zone set
      • Default zone
    • Distributing zones
      • Methods of triggering a distribution
      • Zone distribution process
    • Zone merge
      • Zone merge process
      • Zone merge rules
    • Access control
  • FC zone configuration task list
  • Configuring zone aliases
  • Configuring zones
  • Configuring zone sets
  • Configuring the default zone policy
  • Configuring zone distribution and merge types
  • Activating a zone set and distributing it to the entire fabric
  • Triggering a complete distribution
  • Renaming zone aliases, zones, and zone sets
  • Copying zone aliases, zones, and zone sets
  • Deleting the zone database
  • Displaying and maintaining FC zones
  • FC zone configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration considerations
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Configuring NPV
  • Overview
    • Downlink interface and downlink
    • Uplink interface and uplink
    • Downlink-to-uplink interface mappings
    • Disruptive load balancing
  • NPV configuration task list
  • Configuring uplink interfaces and downlink interfaces
    • Configuring uplink interfaces
    • Configuring downlink interfaces
  • Configuring downlink-to-uplink interface mappings
  • Initiating a disruptive load-balancing process
  • Displaying and maintaining NPV
  • NPV configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Configuring FC ping
  • Overview
  • Configuration procedure
  • FC ping configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
    • Verifying the configuration
• Configuring FC tracert
  • Overview
  • Configuration procedure
  • FC tracert configuration example
    • Network requirements
    • Configuration procedure
• Appendixes
  • Appendix A Fabric address assignment
  • Appendix B Well-known fabric addresses