Enabling And Disabling Npiv - HP StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Enabling and disabling NPIV

Enabling and disabling NPIV
On the Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, 6505, 6510, 6520, 7800, and 8000 switches, the Brocade
5410, 5424, 5430, 5450, 5460, 5470, and 5480 embedded switches, Brocade DCX and DCX
8510 Backbone families, and the FA4-18 blade, NPIV is enabled for every port.
NOTE
NPIV is a requirement for FCoE. The CEE/FCoE ports on the Brocade 8000 have NPIV enabled by
default, but NPIV cannot be enabled or disabled on these ports. The login limit can be set on these
ports provided you disable and enable the ports using the fcoe --disable and fcoe --enable
commands.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. To enable or disable NPIV on a port, enter the portCfgNPIVPort command with either the
NOTE
If the NPIV feature is disabled, the port is toggled if NPIV devices are logged in from that F_Port (a
true NPIV port). Otherwise, the firmware considers that port as an F_Port even though the NPIV
feature was enabled.
422
VC Link Init
Locked L_Port
Locked G_Port
Disabled E_Port
Locked E_Port
ISL R_RDY Mode
RSCN Suppressed
Persistent Disable
LOS TOV enable
NPIV capability
QOS E_Port
Port Auto Disable:
Rate Limit
EX Port
Mirror Port
Credit Recovery
F_Port Buffers
Fault Delay:
NPIV PP Limit:
CSCTL mode:
Frame Shooter Port
D-Port mode:
Compression:
Encryption:
FEC:
--enable or --disable option.
The following example shows NPIV being enabled on port 10 of a Brocade 5100:
switch:admin> portCfgNPIVPort --enable 10
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
ON
AE
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
ON
OFF
0(R_A_TOV)
128
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
OFF
ON
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