Implementing the Cisco MDS 9000 in an Intermix FCP, FCIP, and FICON environment
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notices
- Trademarks
- Preface
- The team that wrote this redbook
- Become a published author
- Comments welcome
- Chapter 1. Cisco switches and directors
- 1.1 Product description
- 1.1.1 MDS 9120 and 9140 Multilayer Switches
- 1.1.2 MDS 9216 Multilayer Switch
- 1.1.3 MDS 9506 Multilayer Director
- 1.1.4 MDS 9509 Multilayer Director
- 1.2 Features
- 1.2.1 Supported attachments
- 1.2.2 Port addressing and port modes
- 1.2.3 Fibre Channel IDs and Persistent FC_ID
- 1.2.4 Supported port types
- 1.3 Supervisor module
- 1.3.1 Control and management
- 1.3.2 Optional modules
- 1.4 MDS 9000 SAN-OS
- 1.4.1 Licensed feature packages
- 1.4.2 Fabric Shortest Path First
- 1.4.3 PortChannels
- 1.4.4 Trunking
- 1.4.5 Quality of Service
- 1.4.6 Congestion control
- 1.4.7 IP services
- 1.4.8 Call home
- 1.4.9 Virtual SAN
- 1.5 Security management
- 1.5.1 Switch access security
- 1.5.2 User authentication
- 1.6 Troubleshooting features
- 1.6.1 Troubleshooting with Fabric Manager
- 1.6.2 Monitoring network traffic using SPAN
- 1.6.3 Monitoring traffic using Fibre Channel analyzers
- 1.7 FICON
- 1.8 Fabric management
- 1.8.1 Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager
- 1.8.2 In-band management and out-of-band management
- 1.8.3 Using the setup routine
- 1.8.4 Controlling administrator access with users and roles
- 1.8.5 Accessing Cisco Fabric Manager
- 1.8.6 Connecting to a supervisor module
- 1.9 Zoning
- 1.9.1 Zone features
- 1.9.2 Zone membership
- 1.9.3 Configuring a zone
- 1.9.4 Zone enforcement
- 1.9.5 Zone sets
- 1.9.6 Default zone
- 1.10 Switch interoperability mode
- 1.10.1 Interoperability matrix
- 1.11 IBM feature codes
- Chapter 2. Pre-installation planning
- 2.1 General FICON planning considerations
- 2.1.1 Processor support
- 2.2 Physical layout planning.
- 2.2.1 Port layout
- 2.3 Connecting
- 2.3.1 Short wave or long wave
- 2.4 Description of the environment we are building
- 2.4.1 Servers
- 2.4.2 Storage
- 2.4.3 IOCDS
- 2.4.4 Naming conventions
- 2.5 Specific Cisco FICON planning considerations
- 2.5.1 Licensing
- 2.5.2 PSP buckets and APARs
- 2.5.3 Interoperability matrix Web links
- 2.5.4 Port numbering and addressing
- 2.5.5 PortChannels and addressing
- 2.5.6 Domain IDs - persistent/static
- 2.5.7 HCD/IOCDS definitions
- 2.5.8 VSANs negate the need for zones
- 2.5.9 CUP installation
- 2.5.10 Cascaded versus simple topology
- 2.6 Specific Cisco FCP planning considerations
- 2.6.1 Licensing and base features
- 2.6.2 Interoperability matrix Web links
- 2.6.3 Persistent FCIDs for AIX
- 2.6.4 Persistent/static domain ids
- 2.6.5 Zoning
- 2.6.6 VSANs
- 2.6.7 Inter VSAN Routing
- 2.7 FCIP
- 2.7.1 FCIP requirements
- 2.8 Generic MDS 9000 planning considerations
- 2.8.1 Console ports to COMs server
- 2.8.2 Java levels
- 2.8.3 IP address allocation
- 2.8.4 Four cables, two IP addresses
- 2.8.5 COM1 port hooking up a modem
- 2.8.6 Licensing
- 2.8.7 Distribution of ISLs
- 2.8.8 VSANs
- 2.8.9 Zones and zoning
- 2.8.10 VSANs versus zones
- 2.8.11 PortChannnels
- 2.8.12 Trunking
- 2.8.13 FTP/TFTP server
- 2.8.14 Syslog server
- 2.8.15 Checking the current switch hardware and software levels
- Chapter 3. Installing and configuring DM and FM
- 3.1 Obtain the source files
- 3.1.1 System requirements
- 3.2 Obtaining current versions
- 3.2.1 Setting up the initial parameters with the setup program
- 3.3 Updating the current FM version
- 3.4 FM Server versus the bundled version
- 3.4.1 Licensing
- 3.4.2 Advantages of FM Server over freeware
- 3.5 Device Manager
- Chapter 4. FICON configuration
- 4.1 Hardware configuration definition.
- 4.2 Checking processor is enabled for cascading
- 4.3 HCD define of switches to host
- 4.4 HCD define of switches to control units
- 4.5 HCD switch cascading
- 4.6 HCD definition of link addresses
- 4.7 Building the IODF production file
- 4.8 FICON port numbering on the MDS switches
- 4.9 Cisco MDS 9000 Mainframe Package license
- 4.10 FICON VSAN configuration and requirements
- 4.11 FICON load balancing
- 4.12 Static domain ID configuration
- 4.13 Fabric binding configuration
- 4.14 PortChannel configuration
- 4.15 Moving ports to the FICON VSAN
- 4.16 Verification of working topology
- 4.17 FICON configuration files
- 4.17.1 Using DM to prohibit, block, and swap ports
- 4.17.2 Using SA I/O Operations to prohibit and block ports
- Chapter 5. FCP configuration
- 5.1 FCP and the Cisco MDS 9000 products
- 5.1.1 Port addressing and port modes
- 5.1.2 Zoning
- 5.1.3 VSAN
- 5.1.4 Trunking and PortChannel
- 5.1.5 iSCSI and FCIP support
- 5.2 Initial setup of the Cisco MDS 9000 products
- 5.2.1 Preparing to configure the switch
- 5.2.2 Connecting to the switch via the serial port
- 5.2.3 Setting up the initial parameters with the setup program
- 5.2.4 Installing the Cisco Fabric Manager and Device Manager
- 5.3 Managing the Cisco SAN with the Fabric Manager
- 5.3.1 Getting started
- 5.3.2 User interface
- 5.4 Managing zones and zone sets
- 5.4.1 Creating aliases, zones and zone sets
- Chapter 6. FCIP configuration
- 6.1 FCIP concepts
- 6.2 FCIP licensing
- 6.3 FCIP configuration
- 6.4 Verification
- 6.5 FICON load balancing
- 6.6 Advanced configuration concepts
- 6.6.1 Advanced FCIP profile configuration
- 6.6.2 Advanced FCIP interface configuration
- 6.6.3 Configuring FCIP write acceleration
- 6.6.4 Enabling FCIP compression
- 6.6.5 FCIP high availability
- Chapter 7. Useful tools and procedures.
- 7.1 Syslog server
- 7.2 Setting up an FTP/TFTP server
- 7.3 Checking the current switch hardware and software levels
- 7.4 FM tools
- 7.4.1 Switch Health Analysis
- 7.4.2 Fabric Configuration Analysis
- 7.4.3 End to End Connectivity Analysis
- 7.4.4 ISL Performance Monitoring
- 7.4.5 FC Ping
- 7.4.6 FC Traceroute
- 7.5 Non-disruptive code loads using the CLI
- 7.6 Non-disruptive code loads using FM
- Chapter 8. Security
- 8.1 Securing management access to the switch
- 8.1.1 SNMP security
- 8.1.2 AAA using RADIUS and TACACS+
- 8.1.3 Role based authorization
- 8.1.4 VSAN based authorization
- 8.1.5 SSH, SCP, and SFTP services
- 8.1.6 IP Access Control Lists
- 8.2 Securing access to the fabric
- 8.2.1 VSANs
- 8.2.2 Zoning
- 8.2.3 Fibre Channel Security Protocol support
- 8.2.4 FICON Fabric Binding
- 8.2.5 Port security
- 8.2.6 Reconfigure Fabric rejection support
- 8.2.7 Control of principal switch selection
- 8.2.8 Static domain ID assignment
- 8.2.9 Static, persistent FCID assignment
- Appendix A. CLI and FICON setup script
- CLI configuration FICON point to point topology
- License installation and verification
- FICON VSAN configuration using the FICON setup script
- FICON port configuration
- Verification
- Complete 9506 running configuration
- CLI configuration FICON cascaded topology
- License installation and verification
- FICON VSAN configuration using the FICON setup script
- FICON port configuration
- PortChannel configuration
- FCIP configuration
- Verification
- Complete 9506 and 9216 running configuration
- Invalid attachment state
- Appendix B. Generated IODF
- Glossary
- Related publications
- IBM Redbooks
- Cisco publications
- Online resources
- How to get IBM Redbooks
- Help from IBM
- Index
- Back cover.
