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Preface

This preface describes the audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco Fabric Manager Fabric Configuration Guide. It also provides information on how to obtain related documentation.

Audience

This guide is for experienced network administrators who are responsible for configuring and maintaining the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric switches.

Organization

The Cisco Fabric Manager Fabric Configuration Guide is organized as follows: :


Chapter	Title	Description
Chapter 1	Fabric Overview	Provides an overview of features described in this guide.
Chapter 2	Configuring and Managing VSANs	Describes how virtual SANs (VSANs) work, explains the concept of default VSANs, isolated VSANs, VSAN IDs, and attributes, and provides details on how to create, delete, and view VSANs.
Chapter 3	Configuring SAN Device Virtualization	Describes how to configure virtual devices to represent physical end devices for switches running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.1(2) and NX-OS Release 4.1(1a).
Chapter 4	Creating Dynamic VSANs	Defines the Dynamic Port VSAN Membership (DPVM) feature that is used to maintain fabric topology when a host or storage device connection is moved between two Cisco MDS switches.
Chapter 5	Configuring and Managing Zones	Defines various zoning concepts and provides details on configuring a zone set and zone management features.
Chapter 6	Distributing Device Alias Services	Describes the use of the Distributed Device Alias Services (device alias) to distribute device alias names on a fabric-wide basis.
Chapter 7	Configuring FCoE	Describes the use of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet.
Chapter 8	Configuring Fibre Channel Routing Services and Protocols	Provides details and configuration information on Fibre Channel routing services and protocols.
Chapter 9	Configuring Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing	Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) multiplexes multiple optical carrier signals on a single optical fiber. DWDM uses different wavelengths to carry various signals.
Chapter 10	Managing FLOGI, Name Server, FDMI, and RSCN Databases	Provides name server and fabric login details required to manage storage devices and display registered state change notification (RSCN) databases.
Chapter 11	Discovering SCSI Targets	Describes how the SCSI LUN discovery feature is started and displayed.
Chapter 12	Configuring FICON	Provides details on the FI-bre CON-nection (FICON) interface, fabric binding, and the Registered Link Incident Report (RLIR) capabilities in Cisco MDS switches.
Chapter 13	Advanced Features and Concepts	Describes the advanced configuration features—time out values, fctrace, fabric analyzer, world wide names, flat FC IDs, loop monitoring, and interoperating switches.

Document Conventions

Command descriptions use these conventions:


boldface font	Commands and keywords are in boldface.
italic font	Arguments for which you supply values are in italics.
[ ]	Elements in square brackets are optional.
[ x \| y \| z ]	Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.

Screen examples use these conventions:


`screen font`	Terminal sessions and information the switch displays are in screen font.
boldface screen font	Information you must enter is in boldface screen font.
italic screen font	Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.
`< >`	Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle brackets.
`[ ]`	Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.
`!, #`	An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.

This document uses the following conventions:

Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the manual.

Caution

Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

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