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This chapter describes the Cisco NX-OS Fibre Channel, virtual Fibre Channel, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) commands that begin with V.
To create multiple fabrics sharing the same physical infrastructure, assign ports to Virtual SANs (VSANs), turn on or off interop mode, load balance either per originator exchange or by source-destination ID, and VSAN membership, use the vsan command. To remove a configuration, use the no form of this command.
vsan vsan-id
[ interface { fc slot / port | san-port-channel port | vfc vfc-id } |
interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] |
loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id } |
name name [ interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | suspend [ interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] |
suspend [ interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }]]
no vsan vsan-id
[ interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] |
loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id } |
name name [ interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | suspend [ interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] |
suspend [ interop [ mode ] [ loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }] | loadbalancing { src-dst-id | src-dst-ox-id }]]
VSAN database configuration mode
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To use this command, change to the VSAN database mode.
The interface range must be in ascending order and nonoverlapping. You can specify a range using a hyphen and several interfaces using commas:
fcslot/port - port, fcslot/port, fcslot/port:
For example, show int fc2/1 - 3, fc2/4, fc3/2
san-port-channel portchannel-number.subinterface-number:
For example, show int san-port-channel 5.1
The no form of the vsan vsan-id interface command is not supported. To remove a VSAN membership of an interface (for example, interface fc1/8 from VSAN 7), you must assign the interface to another VSAN. The best practice is to assign the interface back to the default VSAN (VSAN 1).
This example shows how to create multiple fabrics sharing the same physical infrastructure and how to assign ports to VSANs:
This example shows how to suspend a VSAN and enable Interop mode 4:
This example shows how to configure a VSAN to create a FCOE-VLAN to VSAN mapping:
This example shows how to remove interface fc2/1 from VSAN 7:
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Configures a WWN for a suspended VSAN that has interop mode 4 enabled. |
To enter Virtual SAN (VSAN) database mode to configure VSAN information and membership, use the vsan database command.
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To exit from the VSAN database configuration mode, use the exit command.
This example shows how to enter the VSAN database configuration mode:
This example shows how to configure the association between a VSAN and virtual Fibre Channel interface:
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