Brocade Communications Systems 300 Service manual

53-1002157-01
29 April 2011
®
EZSwitchSetup
Administrator’s Guide
Supporting Brocade 300, 4100, 4900, 5000, 5100, 5300, 6510, 7800, 8000,
and VA-40FC

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Corporate and Latin American Headquarters
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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San Jose, CA 95110
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No. 1 Guanghua Road
Chao Yang District
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Title Publication number Summary of changes Date
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000121-01 First release January 2006
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000195-01 Changes to support Fabric OS
v5.2.0, including zoning and port
activation
September 2006
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000195-02 Added Brocade 5000 switch
support
February 2007
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000441-01 Added Brocade 4900 switch
support; Added DHCP and IPv6
support
June 2007
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000607-01 Added enhanced switch setup October 2007
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000607-02 Added support for new hardware:
Brocade 300, Brocade 5100, and
Brocade 5300.
March 2008

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EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1000607-03 Added new wizards:
- Introduction wizard
- Connect Cables wizard
- Set Switch IP Address wizard
- Confirm IP Address wizard
- Set Parameters wizard
- Select Zoning wizard
- Specify Devices wizard
- Configure Ports and Connect
- Devices wizard
July 2008
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001193-01 Change to EZManager wizard November 2008
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001193-02 Added additional information
that was received after the Fabric
OS version 6.2.0 RC date.
December 2008
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001304-01 Special version for introduction of
the 8000 switch.
March 2009
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001344-01 Add option for obtaining IP
address from DHCP. Support for
the Brocade 7800.
July 2009
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001344-02 Add support for the Brocade VA-
40FC.
August 2009
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1001344-03 Remove software support
statement from title page, as this
document supports multiple
Fabric OS versions.
February 2010
EZSwitchSetup Administrator’s Guide 53-1002157-01 Add support for Brocade 6510. April 2011
Title Publication number Summary of changes Date

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Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Document Feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Chapter 1 Introducing EZSwitchSetup
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Overview of EZSwitchSetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Configuring Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Supported switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Language support for EZSwitchSetup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Switch
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing and running the EZSwitchSetup wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Launching the EZSwitchSetup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Connecting cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Discovering the switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Confirming IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Switch discovery failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Setting switch parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Zoning selection options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Configuring zones on the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Specifying devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Connecting devices and completing the setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Chapter 3 Managing Your Switch
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Switch manager overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Task panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Switch View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Content page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Launching the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Switch Manager sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Logging out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Viewing switch information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Viewing the status indicator legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Viewing fan, temperature, and power supply status . . . . . . . . . 31
Port status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Switch Information tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Port information tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Changing switch information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Add port license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Managing devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Device connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Assigning and renaming device aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Zoning management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Viewing the zone access map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Editing the zoning configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Validating zoning configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Restoring Typical Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Accessing Web Tools for advanced management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Making EZSwitchSetup your default switch manager . . . . . . . . 45
Appendix A EZSwitchSetup Limitations
General limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Index

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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•Additional Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
•Document Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
How this document is organized
This document contains the following components:
•Chapter 1, “Introducing EZSwitchSetup”, provides basic information about the EZSwitchSetup
interface, including system requirements and installation instructions.
•Chapter 2, “Setting Up Your Switch”, describes how to set up your switch for the first time.
•Chapter 3, “Managing Your Switch”, describes how to monitor and manage your switch using
the EZSwitchSetup Switch Manager.
•Appendix A, “EZSwitchSetup Limitations”, discusses the limitations of and provides
workarounds for using EZSwitchSetup.

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Supported hardware and software
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., documenting all possible configurations and scenarios is
beyond the scope of this document.
The following platforms are supported by this release of EZSwitchSetup:
•Brocade 300 switch
•Brocade 4100 switch
•Brocade 4900 switch
•Brocade 5000 switch
•Brocade 5100 switch
•Brocade 5300 switch
•Brocade 6510 switch
•Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
•Brocade 8000 FCoE Switch
•Brocade VA-40FC switch
What’s new in this document
The following changes have been made since this document was last released:
•Added support for the Brocade 6510 switch.

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Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used in this document are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
code text Identifies CLI output
Identifies syntax examples
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is all lowercase.
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.
NOTE
A note provides a tip, guidance or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference
to related information.
ATTENTION
An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.
CAUTION
A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you or cause
damage to hardware, firmware, software, or data.
DANGER
A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely
hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of these conditions
or situations.

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Key terms
For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the technical glossaries on MyBrocade.
See “Brocade resources” on page x for instructions on accessing MyBrocade.
For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at:
http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary
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