Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual page 7

Access Gateway Administrator's Guide
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Persistent ALPA Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Failover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Failback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Trunking in Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Per Port NPIV login limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Considerations for the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Chapter 4 SAN Configuration with Access Gateway
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Connectivity of multiple devices overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Direct target attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Target aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Access Gateway cascading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Enabling Persistent ALPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Disabling Persistent ALPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Persistent ALPA device data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Removing device data from the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Displaying device data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Clearing ALPA values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Persistent ALPA policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Persistent ALPA. . 43
Failover with port-based mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Failover with device-based mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Enabling and disabling Failover on a N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Enabling and disabling Failover for a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Failover . . . . . . . . 48
Failback configurations in Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Enabling and disabling Failback on an N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Enabling and disabling Failback for a port group . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Failback. . . . . . . . 50
How Trunking works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configuring Trunking on the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Configuration management for trunk areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Enabling trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Disabling F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Trunking monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Trunking considerations for the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Trunking considerations for Access Gateway module . . . . . . . . 57
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Trunking in
Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Upgrade and downgrade considerations with
Adaptive Networking in AG mode enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway considerations . . . . . 59
Setting the login limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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