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CONTENTS

Preface vii

Audience vii

Organization vii

Document Conventions viii

Related Documentation

Cisco Fabric Manager

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Quick Configuration Guide

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide

•Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Online Help

•Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Web Services Online Help

Command-Line Interface

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family Software Upgrade and Downgrade Guide

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Quick Configuration Guide

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family Quick Command Reference

•Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch Configuration Guide and Command Reference

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family SAN Volume Controller Configuration Guide

Troubleshooting and Reference

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family MIB Quick Reference

•Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch MIB Quick Reference

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family CIM Programming Reference

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family System Messages Reference

•Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch System Messages Reference

Installation and Configuration Note

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family SSM Configuration Note

•Cisco MDS 9000 Family Port Analyzer Adapter Installation and Configuration Note

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Cisco Product Security Overview

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In addition, if you have a valid Cisco service contract, Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC)

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Definitions of Service Request Severity

To ensure that all service requests are reported in a standard format, Cisco has established severity

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Severity 1 (S1)—Your network is “down,” or there is a critical impact to your business operations. You

and Cisco will commit all necessary resources around the clock to resolve the situation.

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Overview

The primary objective of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Quick Configuration Guide is to

get you started with configuring your Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch using the Cisco Fabric Manager

graphical user interface (GUI).

Figure 1-1 outlines the organization of the guide and it also serves as a flowchart describing the major

steps used in the installation and configuration of the fabric.

Figure 1-1 Installation and Configuration Flowchart

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Preparing network connections

Using the Switch Setup utility

Installing Fabric Manager

Launching Fabric Manager

Configuring VSANs

Configuring interfaces

Configuring zones

Configuring zone sets

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Chapter 1 Overview

Overview of Fabric Manager

Start the process by setting up the hardware and performing the initial switch setup using the CLI. Then

install Cisco Fabric Manager, and use it to configure VSANs, interfaces, zones, and zone sets, which are

the minimum requirements for creating a fabric.

Note After setting up the switch, if you choose to perform further configuration tasks using the CLI, refer to

the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•Overview of Fabric Manager, page 1-2

•Overview of VSANs, Interfaces, Zones, and Zone Sets, page 1-2

Overview of Fabric Manager

Fabric Manager provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays real-time views of your network

fabrics and lets you manage the configuration of Cisco MDS 9000 Family devices and third-party

switches. It provides an alternative to the CLI for most switch configuration commands.

Fabric Manager includes management applications, such as Fabric Manager Client, Fabric Manager

Server, Device Manager, Performance Manager, and Fabric Manager Web Services. For further details

regarding the various management components of Fabric Manager, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family

Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.

Fabric Manager Server must be started before running Fabric Manager. On a Windows PC, Fabric

Manager Server is installed as a service. This service can then be administered using the Windows

Services applet in the control panel. Fabric Manager Server discovers the physical and logical fabric,

and listens for SNMP traps, syslog messages, and Performance Manager threshold events.

See Chapter 3, “Installing and Launching Fabric Manager,” for instructions on installing Fabric

Manager. Appendix A, “Fabric Manager Client,” has further details on using the Fabric Manager Client.

Overview of VSANs, Interfaces, Zones, and Zone Sets

VSANs, interfaces, zones, and zone sets comprise the minimum configuration required for a Cisco MDS

9000 Family switch to be up and running.

Virtual SANs can scale SANs beyond current limitations in a resilient, secure, cost-effective, and

manageable fashion. Using VSANs, you can build larger consolidated fabrics and still maintain the

required security and isolation between applications beyond what is currently offered through zoning. A

VSAN can create separate virtual fabrics on top of the same redundant physical infrastructure.

Interfaces enable a switch to relay frames from one data link to another. You must define the

characteristics of the interfaces through which the frames are sent and received. The configured

interfaces can be Fibre Channel interfaces, the management interface (mgmt0), or VSAN interfaces.

The zoning service within a Fibre Channel fabric can provide security between devices sharing the same

fabric. The primary goal is to prevent certain devices from accessing other devices within the fabric.

With many different types of servers and storage devices on the network, the need for security is critical.

For example, if a host was to gain access to a disk being used by another host, potentially with a different

operating system, the data on this disk could get corrupted. To avoid any compromise of critical data

within the SAN, zoning allows you to overlay a security map dictating which devices, namely hosts, can

communicate with which targets, reducing the risk of data loss.

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Chapter 1 Overview

Overview of VSANs, Interfaces, Zones, and Zone Sets

VSANs and zoning within the MDS 9000 Family of products aid the SAN designer in building secure

and manageable networking environments while optimizing the use and cost of switching hardware.

VSANs are used to divide a redundant physical SAN infrastructure into separate virtual SAN islands,

each with its own set of Fibre Channel fabric services. By each VSAN supporting an independent set of

Fibre Channel services, a VSAN-enabled infrastructure can house numerous applications without

concern for fabric resource or event conflicts between these virtual environments. Once the physical

fabric has been divided, zoning is then used to implement a security layout within each VSAN that is

tuned to the needs of each application within each VSAN.

VSANs are first created as isolated fabrics within a common physical topology. Once VSANs have been

created, individual unique zone sets can then be applied as necessary within each VSAN.

See Chapter 4, “Configuring VSANs and Interfaces,” and Chapter 5, “Configuring Zones and Zone

Sets,” for details on configuring VSANs, interfaces, zones, and zone sets.

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Chapter 1 Overview

Overview of VSANs, Interfaces, Zones, and Zone Sets

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