Dell Force10 MXL Deployment Manual

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Deploying FCoE (FIP Snooping) on Dell Force 10 MXL48Step by step explanation of CLI example for the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series using NPV (only covering thedifferences from the single port configuration)o feature NPV– enables the NPV feature which turns off zoning. The FC side of the Nexus 5000 seriesswitch effectively turns into just a FC gateway (just passing FC out to another switch). When thisfeature is enabled the Cisco Nexus 5000 series switch will have to do a full reload because it iscompletely changing the way it deals with the FC packet behavior. Be prepared for this reloadbecause it may impact a currently running network environment.NOTE: It will be obvious to the casual observer that when the Cisco Nexus ToR switch is changedinto NPV mode all zoning and services associated with FC termination are no longer active on theswitch.It will simply aggregate FC out to an FC switch that it will be connected to. With this changein behavior some of the typical commands used when looking at the device logins will also changeand may not have the same capability. However the FC switch that the Cisco Nexus ToR switch isconnected to, in this case a Brocade FC8 switch, will have a view from the FC perspective of theCNA’s connected at the other end in the blade servers (with a proper configuration in place). Thezoning and FC configurations will then happen on the FC switch.With the Cisco Nexus 5K series in NPV mode verify that negotiations have happened properly betweenthe FCF and the CNA end devices, in this case the Cisco Nexus 55548 is the FCF. Type : show flogidatabase“show flogi database”Figure 41.The FC interfaces will no longer show up and the “show flogi database” command is no longeravailable.Configuring the Dell Force10 MXL for FIP-snooping with Cisco Nexus 5000 series switch in NPVmode.The configuration will be the same as previously mentioned in the single or multiple portconfigurations.Nexus5548-top# show fcoe database-----------------------------------------------------------------------INTERFACE FCID PORT NAME MAC ADDRESS-----------------------------------------------------------------------vfc1 0xc60009 20:01:14:fe:b5:07:12:34 14:fe:b5:07:12:34Total number of flogi = 1.