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Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Automatic Port Configuration policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Failover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Failback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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Chapter 4 Fabric Configuration with the Dell FC SAN Module
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connectivity of multiple devices overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Fabric and Edge switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Connectivity to Cisco Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
How the ADS policy works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Enabling and disabling the Advanced Device Security policy . . . 8
Setting the list of devices allowed to log in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Setting the list of devices not allowed to log in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Removing devices from the list of allowed devices . . . . . . . . . . 9
Adding new devices to the list of allowed devices . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Displaying the list of allowed devices on the FC SAN Module . 10
ADS policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
How the APC policy works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Enabling and disabling the APC policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Automatic Port Configuration policy considerations . . . . . . . . . 12
How port groups work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Adding an external port (N_Port) to a port group. . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Deleting an external port (N_Port) from a port group . . . . . . . . 14
Removing a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Renaming a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Disabling the Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Port Grouping policy modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Creating a port group and enabling login balancing mode. . . . 15
Rebalancing internal ports (F_Ports) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Enabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode . . . . . . . . . . 17
Disabling Managed Fabric Name Monitoring mode . . . . . . . . . 17
Displaying the current fabric name monitoring timeout value . 17
Setting the current fabric name monitoring timeout value. . . . 17
Port Grouping policy considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Failover configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Enabling and disabling Failover on an external port (N_Port) . 20
Enabling and disabling Failover for a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Adding a preferred secondary external port (N_Port) . . . . . . . . 21
Deleting internal ports from a preferred secondary external port21
Failback configurations in the FC SAN Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Enabling and disabling Failback on an external port (N_Port) 23
Enabling and disabling Failback for a port group . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Verifying the switch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Enabling NPIV on M-EOS switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Enabling NPIV on a Cisco switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Dell 8/4Gbps FC SAN Module Administrator's Guide
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