Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Ampp characteristics, Life of a port profile

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Port profile

VLAN profile QoS profile Security profile

FIGURE 160 Port profile contents

NOTE

A port profile does not contain some of the interface-level configurations, such as LLDP, SPAN, LAG, and so on.

AMPP characteristics

Note the following points regarding the Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP) feature:

•Port groups and port profiles are collections of network policies. The vNICs inherit these network policies.

•Port profiles are associated with physical switches.

•VMs can have one or more vNICs, and port profiles are applied on the switch ports where vNICs are learned.

•Port profiles are reapplied to a new switch port if the same vNIC is learned on a new port.

•When a port is configured in port profile mode, the downlink profile is activated on the ports. A properly configured downlink profile enables all vNIC traffic to pass through, allowing the switch to perform MAC learning. There is one downlink profile per switch and the downlink profile cannot be deleted.

Life of a port profile

A port profile during creation goes through multiple states. Port profiles go through the following states:

•Created — This state specifies that a port profile is created but may not be complete when the port profile is created or modified.

•Activated — This state specifies that a port profile is activated and is available for MAC address-to-port profile association. If the created port profile is not complete, the activation fails. You must resolve any conflicts or dependencies and reactivate the port profile.

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