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Default Settings
The speed LED also displays if the beacon mode is enabled or disabled:
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Configuring Switch Port Defaults
You can configure default values for various switch port attributes. If you configure the following
attributes, they will be applied globally to all future switch port configurations, even if you do not
individually specify them at that time.
Default Settings
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Parameters
Interface mode
Interface speed
Administrative state
Trunk mode
Trunk-allowed VSANs
Interface VSAN
Beacon mode
EISL encapsulation
Data field size
Configuring VSAN Interfaces
VSANs apply to Fibre Channel fabrics and enable you to configure multiple isolated SAN topologies
within the same physical infrastructure. You can create an IP interface on top of a VSAN and then use
this interface to send frames to this VSAN. To use this feature, you must configure the IP address for
this VSAN. VSAN interfaces cannot be created for nonexisting VSANs.
Follow these guidelines when creating or deleting VSAN interfaces:
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You can configure each interface only in one VSAN.
After configuring the VSAN interface, you can configure an IP address or Virtual Router Redundancy
Protocol (VRRP) features.
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Off—Beacon mode is disabled
On (flashing green)—The beacon mode is enabled. The LED flashes at one-second intervals.
lists the default settings for Fibre Channel interface parameters.
Default Fibre Channel Interface Parameters
Create a VSAN before creating the interface for that VSAN. If a VSAN does not exist, the interface
cannot be created.
Create the interface manually.
If you delete the VSAN, the attached interface is automatically deleted.
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