Brocade Communications Systems 300 Manual de servicio

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29 April 2011

EZSwitchSetup

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Brocade 300, 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300, 6510, 7800, 8000,

and VA-40FC

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Document History

Corporate and Latin American Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

1745 Technology Drive

San Jose, CA 95110

Tel: 1-408-333-8000

Fax: 1-408-333-8101

E-mail: inf[email protected]om

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems China HK, Ltd.

No. 1 Guanghua Road

Chao Yang District

Units 2718 and 2818

Beijing 100020, China

Tel: +8610 6588 8888

Fax: +8610 6588 9999

E-mail: [email protected]

European Headquarters

Brocade Communications Switzerland Sàrl

Centre Swissair

Tour B - 4ème étage

29, Route de l'Aéroport

Case Postale 105

CH-1215 Genève 15

Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 799 5640

Fax: +41 22 799 5641

E-mail: emea-i[email protected]

Asia-Pacific Headquarters

Brocade Communications Systems Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen WFOE)

Citic Plaza

No. 233 Tian He Road North

Unit 1308 – 13th Floor

Guangzhou, China

Tel: +8620 3891 2000

Fax: +8620 3891 2111

E-mail: [email protected]

Title Publication number Summary of changes Date

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000121-01 First release January 2006

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000195-01 Changes to support Fabric OS

v5.2.0, including zoning and port

activation

September 2006

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000195-02 Added Brocade 5000 switch

support

February 2007

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000441-01 Added Brocade 4900 switch

support; Added DHCP and IPv6

support

June 2007

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000607-01 Added enhanced switch setup October 2007

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000607-02 Added support for new hardware:

Brocade 300, Brocade 5100, and

Brocade 5300.

March 2008

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EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000607-03 Added new wizards:

- Introduction wizard

- Connect Cables wizard

- Set Switch IP Address wizard

- Confirm IP Address wizard

- Set Parameters wizard

- Select Zoning wizard

- Specify Devices wizard

- Configure Ports and Connect

- Devices wizard

July 2008

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001193-01 Change to EZManager wizard November 2008

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001193-02 Added additional information

that was received after the Fabric

OS version 6.2.0 RC date.

December 2008

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001304-01 Special version for introduction of

the 8000 switch.

March 2009

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001344-01 Add option for obtaining IP

address from DHCP. Support for

the Brocade 7800.

July 2009

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001344-02 Add support for the Brocade VA-

40FC.

August 2009

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001344-03 Remove software support

statement from title page, as this

document supports multiple

Fabric OS versions.

February 2010

EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1002157-01 Add support for Brocade 6510. April 2011

Title Publication number Summary of changes Date

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Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Document Feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Chapter 1 Introducing EZSwitchSetup

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Overview of EZSwitchSetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Configuring Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Supported switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Language support for EZSwitchSetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Switch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Connecting cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Discovering the switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Confirming IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Switch discovery failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Configuring the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Setting switch parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Zoning selection options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Configuring zones on the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Specifying devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Connecting devices and completing the setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Chapter 3 Managing Your Switch

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Switch manager overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Task panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Content page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Launching the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Switch Manager sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Viewing switch information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Viewing the status indicator legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Viewing fan, temperature, and power supply status . . . . . . . . . 31

Port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Switch Information tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Port information tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Changing switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Add port license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Managing devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Device connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Assigning and renaming device aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Viewing the zone access map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Editing the zoning configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Validating zoning configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Restoring Typical Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Accessing Web Tools for advanced management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Making EZSwitchSetup your default switch manager . . . . . . . . 45

Appendix A EZSwitchSetup Limitations

General limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Index

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About This Document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

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

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Additional Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

•Document Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

How this document is organized

This document contains the following components:

•Chapter 1, “Introducing EZSwitchSetup”, provides basic information about the EZSwitchSetup

interface, including system requirements and installation instructions.

•Chapter 2, “Setting Up Your Switch”, describes how to set up your switch for the first time.

•Chapter 3, “Managing Your Switch”, describes how to monitor and manage your switch using

the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager.

•Appendix A, “EZSwitchSetup Limitations”, discusses the limitations of and provides

workarounds for using EZSwitchSetup.

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Supported hardware and software

In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some

switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are

not.

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is

beyond the scope of this document.

The following platforms are supported by this release of EZSwitchSetup:

•Brocade 300 switch

•Brocade 4100 switch

•Brocade 4900 switch

•Brocade 5000 switch

•Brocade 5100 switch

•Brocade 5300 switch

•Brocade 6510 switch

•Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

•Brocade 8000 FCoE Switch

•Brocade VA-40FC switch

What’s new in this document

The following changes have been made since this document was last released:

•Added support for the Brocade 6510 switch.

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Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this

document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used in this document are as follows:

bold text Identifies command names

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements

Identifies keywords and operands

Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

italic text Provides emphasis

Identifies variables

Identifies paths and Internet addresses

Identifies document titles

code text Identifies CLI output

Identifies syntax examples

For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed

lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is all lowercase.

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of

increasing severity of potential hazards.

NOTE

A note provides a tip, guidance or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference

to related information.

ATTENTION

An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.

CAUTION

A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you or cause

damage to hardware, firmware, software, or data.

DANGER

A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely

hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of these conditions

or situations.

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Key terms

For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the technical glossaries on MyBrocade.

See “Brocade resources” on page x for instructions on accessing MyBrocade.

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online

dictionary at:

http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

Notice to the reader

This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations. These

trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations.

These references are made for informational purposes only.

Additional Information

This section lists additional Brocade and industry-specific documentation that you might find

helpful.

Brocade resources

To get up-to-the-minute information, go to http://my.brocade.com to register at no cost for a user ID

and password.

White papers, online demos, and data sheets are available through the Brocade Web site at:

http://www.brocade.com/products-solutions/products/index.page

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade Web site:

http://www.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the MyBrocade web site and are also bundled with the Fabric OS

firmware.

Corporation Referenced Trademarks and Products

Microsoft Corporation Windows, Windows NT, Internet Explorer

Oracle Corporation Java

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