HP StoreFabric SN6500B Service-Handbuch

53-1002743-01

14 December 2012

Access Gateway

Administrator’s Guide

Supporting Fabric OS v7.1.0

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Document History

Document title Publication number Summary of changes Publication date

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000430-01 First version. January 2007

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000633-01 Added support for the 200E. June 2007

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-01 Added support for new policies

and changes to N_Port

mappings.

October 2007

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-02 Added support for the

300 and 4424 models.

Added support for new features:

- Masterless Trunking

- Direct Target Connectivity

- Advance Device Security policy

- 16- bit routing

March 2008

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-03 Added support for Cascading

Access Gateway.

July 2008

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1000605-04 Updated to fix the table of

contents.

July 2008

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1001189-01 Updated for Fabric OS v6.2.0. November 2008

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1001345-01 Updated for Fabric OS v6.3.0. July 2009

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1001760-01 Updated for Fabric OS v6.4.0. March 2010

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1002156-01 Updated for Fabric OS v7.0.0. April 2011

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1002475-01 Updated for Fabric OS v7.0.1. December 2011

Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide 53-1002743-01 Updated for Fabric OS v7.1.0 December 2012

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Contents

About This Document

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Key terms for Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Other industry resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Optional Brocade features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

Chapter 1 Access Gateway Basic Concepts

Brocade Access Gateway overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Comparing Native Fabric and Access Gateway modes . . . . . . . . 1

Fabric OS features in Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Buffer credit recovery support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Forward error correction support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Virtual Fabrics support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Device authentication support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Access Gateway port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Comparison of Access Gateway ports to standard switch

ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Access Gateway hardware considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 2 Configuring Ports in Access Gateway Mode

Enabling and disabling Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Port state description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Access Gateway mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

F_Port Static Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Device mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Considerations for Access Gateway mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

N_Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Displaying N_Port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Unlocking N_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Persisting port online state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

D_Port support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Limitations and considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Saving port mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 3 Managing Policies and Features in Access Gateway Mode

Access Gateway policies overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Displaying current policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Access Gateway policy enforcement matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Advanced Device Security policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

How the ADS policy works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Enabling and disabling the ADS policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Allow lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

ADS policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the ADS policy. . . 39

Automatic Port Configuration policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

How the APC policy works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Enabling and disabling the APC policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

APC policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the APC policy . . . 40

Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

How port groups work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Adding an N_Port to a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Deleting an N_Port from a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Removing a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Renaming a port group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Disabling the Port Grouping policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Port Grouping policy modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Creating a port group and enabling Automatic Login

Balancing mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Enabling MFNM mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Disabling MFNM mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Displaying the current MFNM mode timeout value. . . . . . . . . . 46

Setting the current MFNM mode timeout value . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Port Grouping policy considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Port

Grouping policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Device Load Balancing policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Enabling the Device Load Balancing policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Disabling the Device Load Balancing policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Device Load Balancing policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Persistent ALPA policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Enabling the Persistent ALPA policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Disabling the Persistent ALPA policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Persistent ALPA device data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Clearing ALPA values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Persistent ALPA policy considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Failover policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Failover with port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Failover with device mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Enabling and disabling the Failover policy on an N_Port . . . . .54

Enabling and disabling the Failover policy for a port group . . .54

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failover

policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Failback policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Failback policy configurations in Access Gateway. . . . . . . . . . .55

Enabling and disabling the Failback policy on an N_Port . . . .56

Enabling and disabling the Failback policy for a port group . . . 57

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for the Failback

policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Failback policy disabled on unreliable links (N_Port

monitoring) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Trunking in Access Gateway mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

How trunking works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Configuring trunking on the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Configuration management for trunk areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Enabling trunking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Disabling F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Monitoring trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

AG trunking considerations for the Edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Trunking considerations for Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . .65

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for trunking in

Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

QoS: Ingress rate limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Upgrade and downgrade considerations for Adaptive

Networking in AG mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Adaptive Networking on Access Gateway considerations . . . . .67

Per-Port NPIV login limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Setting the login limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Advanced Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

End-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Frame monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Limitations for using APM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Considerations for the Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Policy and feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Fabric OS command support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Considerations for the Brocade 6505 and 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

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Chapter 4 SAN Configuration with Access Gateway

Connectivity of multiple devices overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Considerations for connecting multiple devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Direct target attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Considerations for direct target attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Target aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Access Gateway cascading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Access Gateway cascading considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Fabric and Edge switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Verifying the switch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Enabling NPIV on M-EOS switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Connectivity to Cisco fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Enabling NPIV on a Cisco switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Rejoining Fabric OS switches to a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Reverting to a previous configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Appendix A Troubleshooting

Index

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Figures

Figure 1 Switch function in Native mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Figure 2 Switch function in Access Gateway mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Figure 3 Port usage comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 4 Diagnostic port configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 5 Port mapping example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Figure 6 Example of device mapping to N_Port groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Figure 7 Example device mapping to an N_Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 8 Example of adding an external F_Port (F9) on an embedded switch . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 9 Port grouping behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Figure 10 Port group 1 (PG1) setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 11 Failover behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 12 Failback behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Figure 13 Starting point for QoS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Figure 14 Direct target attachment to switch operating in AG mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Figure 15 Target aggregation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Figure 16 Access Gateway cascading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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