Vsan Interfaces; About Vsan Interfaces; Creating Vsan Interfaces - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Chapter 2 Configuring Interfaces
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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.
This section describes VSAN interfaces and includes the following topics:
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About VSAN Interfaces

Follow these guidelines when creating or deleting VSAN interfaces:
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After configuring the VSAN interface, you can configure an IP address or Virtual Router Redundancy
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Protocol (VRRP) feature (see the Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS IP Services Configuration Guide).

Creating VSAN Interfaces

To create a VSAN interface, follow these steps:
Command
Step 1
switch# config t
Step 2
switch(config)# interface vsan 2
switch(config-if)#
Step 3
switch(config-if)# no shutdown
OL-19445-02, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.2(x)
Address is 000c.30d9.fdbc
Internet address is 10.16.1.2/24
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100 Mbps full Duplex
26388 packets input, 6101647 bytes
0 multicast frames, 0 compressed
0 input errors, 0 frame, 0 overrun 0 fifo
10247 packets output, 2389196 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 fifo
0 carrier errors
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Creating VSAN Interfaces, page 2-49
Displaying VSAN Interface Information, page 2-50
Create a VSAN before creating the interface for that VSAN. If a VSAN does not exist, the interface
cannot be created.
Create the interface VSAN—it is not created automatically.
If you delete the VSAN, the attached interface is automatically deleted.
Configure each interface only in one VSAN.
Purpose
Enters configuration mode.
Configures a VSAN with the ID 2.
Enables the VSAN interface.
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