I was pleased with the Cisco switches but as I was putting Brocade M5424 switches in the blade enclosures I figured that it would probably not be a bad idea to replace the rack mount fibre channel switches with Brocade switches as well. I was running Cisco MDS 9124 switches at 4 Gb and they were working just fine, but I knew that with newer blade servers and greater server consolidation ratios I would need more bandwidth per port. This includes the post.Part of a recent refresh project included upgrading the fibre channel storage network. Needs to be run after installing the firmware. To be run after installing the firmware on the switch
Brocade 6510 download#
To download the firmware to be installed on the switch Default is L0(Normal), as per distance will display LE cfgload attributes : => Ensure secure config upload / download : įabric OS v 4.4 & above provides Secure File Copy Protocol (SCP) during upload or download of configurations To set speed for all the ports on the switch Note – 0:auto negotiated 1,2,4 Gbit/sec, 1 : 1Gbit/sec, 2 : 2 Gbit/sec, 4 : 4Gbit/sec
To set speed for a port#te – 0:auto negotiated 1,2,4 Gbit/sec, 1 : 1Gbit/sec, 2 : 2 Gbit/sec, 4 : 4Gbit/sec To enable a port, status would not change even after rebooting the switch To disable a port, status would not change even after rebooting the switch
Brocade 6510 registration#
High availability, heartbeat and synchronizationĪ registered state change registration is suppressed when a state change occurs on the portĪ registered state change registration is sent when a state change occurs on the port Ensure all switches in a fabric have the same parameters in order to communicateĭisplays the PID set for a switch Core, Native or Extended edgeĭisplays the current firmware version on the switchĭisplays the status of local and remote CP’s.
Brocade 6510 password#
To have the effective configuration to be written into the flash memoryĭisplays the status of the temperature readingsĭisplays the status of the sensor readingsĭisplays the information in the name server along with the state change registration detailsĭisplays detailed information of all the devices connected to all the switches in the fabric (Remote Name Servers)ĭisplays the 24 bit address of all devices that are in the fabricĭisplays all the licenses that have been added in the switchĭisplays the current date set on the switchĭisplays the banner that will appear when logging in using the CLI or web toolsĭisplays the JAVA version the switch expects at the management consoleĭisplays information of all the switches in the fabricĭisplays the account information like role, description, password exp date, locked statusĭisplays the overall status of the switchĭisplays policy set for the switch regarding Marginal(Yellow) or Down(Red) error statusĭisplays the speed set for all ports on all slots and other detailed port informationĭisplays the parameters of the switch. To show the details of that configuration To add additional zones in the configuration To create configurations by adding in zones To show the zone configuration information To show the alias configuration on the switch To create multiple ports under a single alias
Zoning Commands alicreate “Name”, “domain,port#” These commands are useful for for Zoning, Show, Port, Time/Date, License, Banner, Password, SNMP, User Config, Firmware, and Miscellaneous. This is a list of useful Brocade switch commands that will help you for administration or management operation.
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