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Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrators Guide
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Contents
About This Document
Chapter 1 Introducing FCoE
Chapter 2 Using the CEE CLI
Chapter 3 Configuration management
Chapter 4 FCoE Configuration Management
Chapter 5 Initial FCoE and CEE Configuration
Chapter 6 Configuring VLANs
Chapter 7 Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP
Chapter 8 Configuring Link Aggregation
Chapter 9 Configuring LLDP
Chapter 10 Configuring ACLs
Chapter 11 Configuring QoS
Chapter 12 Configuring 802.1x Port Authentication
Chapter 13 Configuring IGMP
Chapter 14 Configuring RMON
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Figures
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Tables
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About This Document
How this document is organized
Supported hardware and software
Whats new in this document
Document conventions
Text formatting
Command syntax conventions
Notes, cautions, and warnings
TABLE 1
Notice to the reader
Additional information
Brocade resources
Other industry resources
Getting technical help
Document feedback
Introducing FCoE
FCoE terminology
FCoE overview
FCoE hardware
Layer 2 Ethernet overview
FIGURE 1
Layer 2 forwarding
VLAN tagging
Loop-free network environment
Frame classification (incoming)
Congestion control and queuing
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Access control
Trunking
Flow Control
FCoE Initialization Protocol
FIP discovery
FIP login
FIP logout
FCoE login
FCoE logout
Logincfg
Name server
FC zoning
Registered State Change Notification (RSCN)
FCoE queuing
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FCoE
Using the CEE CLI
Management Tools
CEE Command Line Interface
Saving your configuration changes
Saving configuration changes with the copy command
Saving configuration changes with the write memory command
CEE CLI RBAC permissions
Accessing the CEE CLI from the Fabric OS shell
CEE CLI command modes
FIGURE 2
CEE Command Line Interface
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CEE Command Line Interface 2
Table 5 lists CEE CLI keyboard shortcuts.
CEE CLI keyboard shortcuts
TABLE 4
Command mode
Prompt How to access the command mode Description
Using the do command as a shortcut
Displaying CEE CLI commands and command syntax
CEE CLI command completion
CEE CLI command output modifiers
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Configuration management
Configuration management tasks
CEE configuration guidelines and restrictions
Display the running configuration file
Saving the running configuration file
Loading the startup configuration file
Erasing the startup configuration file.
Archiving the running configuration file
Flash file management commands
Debugging and logging commands
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FCoE Configuration Management
In this chapter
Managing the FCoE configuration
FCoE configuration guidelines and restrictions
Configuring the FCoE login information
Enabling or disabling login configuration management
Configuring the FCoE login information 4
Managing the current configuration transaction
Perform the following tasks to display the FCoE login configuration.
Cleaning up login groups and VN_port mappings
Perform the following tasks to clean up login groups and VN_port mappings.
Displaying the FCoE login configuration
Creating an FCoE login group
Creating an FCoE login group 4
Modifying the FCoE login group device list
Perform the following task to rename an FCoE login group.
Perform the following tasks to add or remove VN_port devices from the FCoE login group.
Deleting an FCoE login group
Perform the following task to delete an FCoE login group.
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Initial FCoE and CEE Configuration
Overview
End to End FCoE using FC ISLs
FIGURE 3
FCoE Logical Port Numbering
FCoE port-to-front end TenGigabit port mapping
High availability
Hot plug
Control Processor failover
ATTENTION
TABLE 9
High availability reference
This section contains reference tables for high availability.
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Operation, data, or state Expected behavior
Configuring the FCoE interfaces
Configuring the FCoE VLAN
TABLE 10
Assigning an FCoE map onto an interface
Configuring DCBX
Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol
Configuring VLAN membership
CEE map configuration
TABLE 11
Defining a Priority Group Table map
TABLE 12
TABLE 11
Defining a Priority-Table map
Applying a CEE provisioning map to an interface
Verifying the CEE maps
CEE audit logs
TABLE 13
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Configuring VLANs
VLAN overview
Ingress VLAN filtering
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VLAN configuration guidelines and restrictions
Default VLAN configuration
VLAN configuration and management
Enabling and disabling an interface port
Configuring the MTU on an interface port
Creating a VLAN interface
Enabling STP on a VLAN
Disabling STP on a VLAN
Configuring a VLAN interface to forward FCoE traffic
Configuring an interface port as a Layer 2 switch port
Configuring an interface port as an access interface
Configuring an interface port as a trunk interface
Disabling a VLAN on a trunk interface
Configuring an interface port as a converged interface
Disabling a VLAN on a converged interface
Configuring protocol-based VLAN classifier rules
Configuring a VLAN classifier rule
Configuring MAC address-based VLAN classifier rules
Deleting a VLAN classifier rule
Creating a VLAN classifier group and adding rules
Activating a VLAN classifier group with an interface port
Configuring the MAC address table
Specifying or disabling the aging time for MAC addresses
Adding static addresses to the MAC address table
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Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP
STP overview
Configuring STP
RSTP overview
TABLE 15
Configuring RSTP
MSTP overview
Configuring MSTP
STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines and restrictions
Default STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration
STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management
Enabling STP, RSTP, or MSTP
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Disabling STP, RSTP, or MSTP
Shutting down STP, RSTP, or MSTP globally
Specifying the bridge priority
Specifying the bridge forward delay
Specifying the bridge maximum aging time
Enabling the error disable timeout timer
Specifying the error disable timeout interval
Specifying the port-channel path cost
Specifying the bridge hello time (STP and RSTP)
Specifying the transmit hold count (RSTP and MSTP)
Enabling Cisco interoperability (MSTP)
Disabling Cisco interoperability (MSTP)
Mapping a VLAN to an MSTP instance
Specifying the maximum number of hops for a BPDU (MSTP)
Specifying a name for an MSTP region
Specifying a revision number for an MSTP configuration
Flushing MAC addresses (RSTP and MSTP)
Clearing spanning tree counters
Clearing spanning tree-detected protocols
Displaying STP, RSTP, and MSTP-related information
Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports
Enabling automatic edge detection
Configuring the path cost
Enabling a port (interface) as an edge port
Enabling the guard root
Specifying the MSTP hello time
Specifying restrictions for an MSTP instance
Specifying a link type
Enabling port fast (STP)
Specifying the port priority
Restricting the port from becoming a root port
Restricting the topology change notification
Enabling spanning tree
Disabling spanning tree
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Configuring Link Aggregation
Link aggregation overview
Link Aggregation Group configuration
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Link Aggregation Control Protocol
Dynamic link aggregation
Static link aggregation
Brocade-proprietary aggregation
LACP configuration guidelines and restrictions
Default LACP configuration
LACP configuration and management
Enabling LACP on an CEE interface
Enabling LACP on an interface in Layer 2 mode
Configuring the LACP system priority
Configuring the LACP timeout period on a CEE interface
Clearing LACP counter statistics on a LAG
Clearing LACP counter statistics on all LAG groups
LACP troubleshooting tips
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Configuring LLDP
LLDP overview
Layer 2 topology mapping
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DCBX overview
Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
Priority Flow Control (PFC)
TABLE 20
DCBX interaction with other vendor devices
LLDP configuration guidelines and restrictions
Default LLDP configuration
LLDP configuration and management
Enabling LLDP globally
Disabling and resetting LLDP globally
Configuring LLDP global command options
TABLE 21
Specifying a system name for the Brocade FCoE hardware
Specifying an LLDP system description for the Brocade FCoE hardware
Specifying a user description for LLDP
Enabling and disabling the receiving and transmitting of LLDP frames
Configuring the transmit frequency of LLDP frames
Configuring the hold time for receiving devices
Advertising the optional LLDP TLVs
Configuring the advertisement of LLDP DCBX-related TLVs
Configuring FCoE priority bits
Configuring iSCSI priority bits
Configuring LLDP profiles
Configuring the iSCSI profile
Configuring LLDP interface-level command options
Clearing LLDP-related information
Displaying LLDP-related information
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Configuring ACLs
ACL overview
Default ACL configuration
ACL configuration guidelines and restrictions
ACL configuration and management
Creating a standard MAC ACL and adding rules
TABLE 22
Creating an extended MAC ACL and adding rules
Modifying MAC ACL rules
Removing a MAC ACL
Reordering the sequence numbers in a MAC ACL
Applying a MAC ACL to a CEE interface
Applying a MAC ACL to a VLAN interface
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Configuring QoS
QoS overview
Rewriting
Queueing
User-priority mapping
Default user-priority mappings for untrusted interfaces
Configuring the QoS trust mode
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Configuring user-priority mappings
Creating a CoS-to-CoS mutation QoS map
Applying a CoS-to-CoS mutation QoS map
Traffic class mapping
Unicast traffic
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Multicast traffic
Mapping CoS-to-Traffic-Class
Activating a mapping CoS-to-Traffic-Class
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Verifying a mapping CoS-to-Traffic-Class
Congestion control
Tail drop
FIGURE 7
Changing the Tail Drop threshold
Ethernet pause
Enabling Ethernet Pause
Ethernet Priority Flow Control
Enabling an Ethernet PFC
Multicast rate limiting
Creating a receive queue multicast rate-limit
Scheduling
Strict priority scheduling
FIGURE 9
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Deficit weighted round robin scheduling
Traffic class scheduling policy
FIGURE 10
Scheduling the QoS queue
TABLE 27
Multicast queue scheduling
CEE map configuration
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Defining a priority group table
Defining a priority-table map
TABLE 30
Applying a CEE provisioning map to an interface
Verifying the CEE maps
Configuring 802.1x Port Authentication
802.1x protocol overview
802.1x configuration guidelines and restrictions
802.1x authentication configuration tasks
Configure authentication between the switch and CNA or NIC
Interface-specific administrative tasks for 802.1x
Configuring 802.1x on specific interface ports
Configuring 802.1x timeouts on specific interface ports
Configuring 802.1x re-authentication on specific interface ports
Disabling 802.1x on specific interface ports
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Configuring IGMP
About IGMP
Active IGMP snooping
Multicast routing
Configuring IGMP
Configuring IGMP snooping querier
Configuring IGMP snooping mrouter
Monitoring IGMP
Configuring RMON
RMON overview
RMON configuration and management
Default RMON configuration
Configuring RMON settings
Configuring RMON events
Configuring RMON history collection
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Appendix
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Brocade 8000 Replacement
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