Fcoe And Fibre Channel Switching; Licensing; Serviceability - Cisco AJ732A - MDS 9134 Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Chapter 1 Product Overview
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FCoE and Fibre Channel Switching

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches support data center I/O consolidation (IOC) by providing FCoE
interfaces (to the servers) and native Fibre Channel interfaces (to the SAN).
FCoE and Fibre Channel switching includes the following features:
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Licensing

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches are shipped with the licenses installed. The switch provides commands to
manage the licenses and install additional licenses.
QoS
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch provides quality of service (QoS) capabilities such as traffic
prioritization and bandwidth allocation on egress interfaces.
The default QoS configuration on the switch provides lossless service for Fibre Channel and FCoE
traffic. QoS can be configured to provide additional classes of service for Ethernet traffic.

Serviceability

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch serviceability functions provide data for network planning and help
to improve problem resolution time.
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Switched Port Analyzer
The switched port analyzer (SPAN) feature allows an administrator to analyze all traffic between ports
by nonintrusively directing the SPAN session traffic to a SPAN destination port that has an external
analyzer attached to it.
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Cisco fabric services
N-port virtualization
VSANs and VSAN trunking
Zoning
Distributed device alias service
SAN port channels
Switched Port Analyzer, page 1-5
Ethanalyzer, page 1-6
Call Home, page 1-6
Online Diagnostics, page 1-6
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Software
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