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About This Document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx

•Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as possible.

The document contains the following components:

•Chapter 1, “Introducing FCoE,” provides an overview of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on the Brocade FCoE hardware.

•Chapter 2, “Using the CEE CLI,” describes the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) CLI.

•Chapter 3, “Configuration management,” describes how to perform the administrative tasks required by the Brocade FCoE hardware.

•Chapter 4, “FCoE Configuration Management,” describes how to configure FCoE using the Fabric OS CLI.

•Chapter 5, “Initial FCoE and CEE Configuration,” describes some basic switch configurations for command SAN and LAN environments.

•Chapter 6, “Configuring VLANs,” describes how to configure VLANs.

•Chapter 7, “Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP,” describes how to configure the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Rapid STP (RSTP), and Multiple STP (MSTP).

•Chapter 8, “Configuring Link Aggregation,” describes how to configure Link Aggregation and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

•Chapter 9, “Configuring LLDP,” describes how to configure the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and the Data Center Bridging (DCB) Capability Exchange Protocol (DCBX).

•Chapter 10, “Configuring ACLs,” describes how to configure Access Control Lists (ACLs).

•Chapter 11, “Configuring QoS,” describes how to configure Quality of Service (QoS).

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