Assigning Static Port Vsan Membership; About The Default Vsan; About The Isolated Vsan - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

VSAN Configuration
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Trunking ports have an associated list of VSANs that are part of an allowed list (see
"Configuring

Assigning Static Port VSAN Membership

To statically assign VSAN membership for an interface using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Choose Interfaces > FC Physical from the Physical Attributes pane. You see the interface configuration
Step 1
in the Information pane.
Click the General tab.
Step 2
You see the Fibre Channel general physical information. Double-click and complete the PortVSAN field.
Click Apply Changes to save these changes, or click Undo Changes to discard any unsaved changes.
Step 3

About the Default VSAN

The factory settings for switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family have only the default VSAN 1 enabled.
We recommend that you do not use VSAN 1 as your production environment VSAN. If no VSANs are
configured, all devices in the fabric are considered part of the default VSAN. By default, all ports are
assigned to the default VSAN.
VSAN 1 cannot be deleted, but it can be suspended.
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Up to 256 VSANs can be configured in a switch. Of these, one is a default VSAN (VSAN 1), and another
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is an isolated VSAN (VSAN 4094). User-specified VSAN IDs range from 2 to 4093.

About the Isolated VSAN

VSAN 4094 is an isolated VSAN. All non-trunking ports are transferred to this VSAN when the VSAN
to which they belong is deleted. This avoids an implicit transfer of ports to the default VSAN or to
another configured VSAN. All ports in the deleted VSAN are isolated (disabled).
When you configure a port in VSAN 4094 or move a port to VSAN 4094, that port is immediately
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isolated.
Caution Do not use an isolated VSAN to configure ports.
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Dynamically—By assigning VSANs based on the device WWN. This method is referred to as
dynamic port VSAN membership (DPVM).
See Chapter 28, "Creating Dynamic VSANs."
Trunking").
Chapter 26 Configuring and Managing VSANs
Chapter 24,
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