About Common Interface Configuration

A switch's main function is to relay frames from one data link to another. To do that, the characteristics of the interfaces through which the frames are received and sent must be defined. The configured interfaces can be Fibre Channel interfaces, Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, the management interface (mgmt0), or VSAN interfaces.

Some configuration settings are similar for Fibre Channel, management, and VSAN interfaces. You can configure interfaces from Fabric Manager by expanding Switches > Interfaces and selecting the interface type from the Physical Attributes pane.



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