Brocade Silkworm 4100 Quick Start Guide

SilkWorm4100 QuickStart Guide

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Publication Number: 53-0000564-01 *53-0000564-01* Publication night out : 07/29/04

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The following table directories all published designs of the SilkWorm 4100 QuickStart Guide. Document Title Publication Number Summary with Changes Publication Date SilkWorm 4100 QuickStart Guide 53-0000564-01 None; this can be a new document. July 2004

This QuickStart guide is intended as an guide to help experienced fitters unpack, install, in addition to configure a SilkWorm 4100 switch quickly. Pertaining to detailed installation along with configuration instructions, reference the SilkWorm 4100 Hardware Reference Manual. You can install the SilkWorm 4100 inside following ways: As a standalone model on a flat surface, when described in this insurance. In an EIA cabinet using the fixed Rack Mount package provided with the transition. For detailed guidance, refer to the Brocade Fixed Rack build Kit Installation method. In an EIA cabinet using the glide Rack Mount package (optional). For thorough instructions, refer to the actual Brocade Slide Rack support Kit Installation procedure. Refer to the next sections of this guide for specific information: Time and Items essential on page 4 Site setting up and Safety rules on page 4 Items included with the SilkWorm 4100 on page 5 Installing the actual SilkWorm 4100 inside an EIA Cabinet on-page 7 Configuring the SilkWorm 4100 on page 8

Time and Items Required

Table 1 lists the main installation tasks for any SilkWorm 4100 turn and the estimated time period required. These time frame estimates assume a new prepared installation website and appropriate power and network online connectivity. Table 1SilkWorm 4100 Installation Tasks, approximated Time, and objects Required Installation Task

Time Estimate Items Required Installing rack install kit 30 minutes Refer towards Brocade Slide carrier Mount Kit installment Procedure or Brocade Fixed Rack install Kit Installation course of action. Mounting and obtaining switch in rack 30 minutes Installing power wires and serial cable tv and configuring internet protocol addresses 20 minutes Power converter cables and serial cord (provided in SilkWorm 4100 accessory kit) Workstation computer with a sequential port or incurable server port along with a terminal emulator program (such as HyperTerminal) IP address for switch Installing Ethernet cables plus configuring the SilkWorm 4100 name, insurance policies, domain ID, PIDs, or additional technique parameters 20 minutes Ethernet wires (optional) for Telnet access All other setting parameters optional. Refer to the Fabric os Procedures Guide for PID information. Installing SFP optical transceivers 30 minutes SFP optical transceivers Attaching fiber-optic cables, cable brings together, and cable guides 60 minutes Fiber-optic cables, cable tv ties, and cable connection guides

Site Planning and Safety Guidelines

Warning To ensure adequate cooling, add the chassis with the nonport side dealing with the air-intake aisle. Verify that a the least 47 cubic feet/minute (79.8 cubic meters/hour) of fresh air is available to the oxygen intake vents within the nonport side with the switch. This helps prevent the fans from pulling in heated harrow air.

To mount and operate the switch successfully, make sure the following requirements tend to be met: The major AC input is 100-240 VAC (move autosenses input current ), 47-63 Hz. The primary outlet, can be correctly wired, guarded by a circuit buster, and grounded prior to local electrical limitations. The supply circuit, line fusing, as well as wire size are generally adequate, as chosen by the electrical status on the switch nameplate. For power supply information, refer to the SilkWorm 4100 Hardware referrals Manual. To guarantee adequate cooling, set up the switch with all the nonport side, that contains the air ingestion vents, facing any cool-air aisle.

Verify that the ambient atmosphere temperature does not meet or exceed 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and that the actual ambient humidity stays between 20 percent plus 85 percent while the transition is operating. If installing the move in a cabinet: The cabinet must be a normal EIA cabinet. Plan a cabinet living space that is 1 holder unit high (a single.75 inches; 5.44 cm), 20 inches (48.three cm) wide, and at least 24 inches (61 cm) deep. Ground all equipment inside the cabinet through a reputable branch circuit interconnection and maintain ground regularly. Do not rely on an extra connection to a part circuit, such as a strength strip. Ensure this airflow and temps requirements are attained on an ongoing foundation, particularly if the change is installed in the closed or multirack assembly. Verify the additional weight of the transition does not exceed the actual cabinets weight restricts or unbalance a cabinet in any way. Secure a cabinet to ensure stability in the instance of unexpected movement. For additional installation, electric powered, environmental, and other factors, refer to the SilkWorm Switch Safety manual.

Items Included with this SilkWorm 4100

The using items are in addition to the standard shipment with the SilkWorm 4100: The SilkWorm 4100 turn, containing three fan assemblies and two electric power supplies The Fixed stand Mount Kit, having installation instructions One addition kit, containing this items: -The SilkWorm 4100 QuickStart Guide -The Brocade Documentation CD-ROM -SFP (small-form-factor pluggable) transceivers (optional)

-Rubber rising feet (to be used as soon as setting up the SilkWorm 4100 as a stand alone unit) -Two seated 6 ft. (just about 3 meters) electricity cords -One serial cable television, 10 ft. (roughly 3 meters) extended, which can be converted from the DB9 serial cable tv to an RJ-45-style sequential cable by treatment of adapter on the finish of the cable

Figure just one displays the port-side view of the SilkWorm 4100 switch. Figure 1SilkWorm 4100 interface Side View

SilkWorm 4100 Switch ID Pull-out Tab

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Port Side View

Figure 2 displays the nonport side watch of the SilkWorm 4100 switch. Figure 2SilkWorm 4100 Nonport part View

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Nonport Side View

Installing the SilkWorm 4100 in an EIA Cabinet

Refer to the Fixed stand Mount Kit set up Procedure that delivered with your unit with regard to instructions on fitting the SilkWorm 4100 inside a fixed rack. Refer to the Slide tray Mount Kit installation Procedure (optional) regarding detailed instructions with installing the SilkWorm 4100. The switch can be installed using the go rack mount system in two ways: To allow the port facet of the switch to go out of the exhaust-air area of the cabinet. In such a installation, the port facet of the switch is flush with the edge of the cabinet. To allow the nonport side in the switch to slide out your cool-air side on the cabinet. In this installation, the port side from the switch is set 3 inches back from your edge of the cabinet, allowing a more gradual flex in the fiber- optic cables.

Configuring a SilkWorm 4100

The SilkWorm 4100 must be put together correctly before it might operate within a community and fabric. With regard to instructions on configuring the switch to work in a fabric made up of switches from different vendors, refer to the particular Brocade Fabric operating-system Procedures Guide. The following items are essential for configuring in addition to connecting the SilkWorm 4100 for use in a very network and cloth : The SilkWorm 4100, installed and associated with a power source A workstation computer that has a airport emulator application (like HyperTerminal for windows 7 ) An unused internet protocol address and similar subnet mask in addition to gateway address The serial cable provided with your switch An Ethernet cable SFP transceivers and suitable fibre cables, seeing that required Access to an file transfer protocol server, for burning the switch configuration To configure the SilkWorm 4100, you must perform the following tasks: 1.Providing Power to your Switch on page 9 2.Creating a successive Connection on page 9 3.Connecting to the switch Using the Serial connection on page 9 4.Setting the Switch ip Address on page 10

5.Creating an Ethernet Connection on page 10 6.Completing Switch arrangement on page 10 Caution Do not really connect the plunge to the network until the IP address is actually correctly set. With regard to instructions on how to set the IP deal with, see Setting this Switch IP target on page 10.

Providing Power to the Switch To provide electrical power towards SilkWorm 4100: 1.Connect the power wires to both electricity supplies and then to help power sources about separate circuits to shield against AC failure. Make certain that the cords have a very minimum service never-ending loop of 6 inches wide available and are routed to avoid stress. 2.Power on the power supplies by wholesaling both AC clicks to 1. The power supply LED fires up green, and the swap begins running publish. The switch takes a minimum of three minutes to boot and complete submit. Note Power is supplied towards the switch as soon as the 1st power supply is attached and turned on. 3.After POST is usually complete, verify that the switch power in addition to status LEDs within the left of the slot side of the move are green.

Creating a Serial Connection To create a serial link with the SilkWorm 4100: 1.Remove the actual plug from the successive port and put the serial cord provided with the SilkWorm 4100. 2.Connect the serial cable connection to the serial port on the switch and also to an RS-232 successive port on the workstation. If the serial vent on the workstation is actually RJ-45 instead of RS-232, you can remove the adapter on the end from the serial cable and also insert the open RJ-45 connector on the RJ-45 serial dock on the workstation. 3.Disable any serialized communication programs going on the workstation. 4.Open a terminal emulator application (like HyperTerminal for windows 7 or TERM inside of a UNIX

environment) as well as configure the application the following : In a home windows 95, 98, the year 2000, or NT ecosystem : Bits per 2nd :9600 Databits:8 Parity:None Stop bits:1 Flow regulate :None In a UNIX environment, enter the pursuing string at the induce : tip /dev/ttyyb -9600

Connecting to the Switch with all the Serial Connection To log in to the switch in the serial connection: 1.Verify that the switch has completed post. When POST is actually complete, the port position and switch power and status LEDs return to a standard wholesome state; for specifics of LED signals, make reference to the SilkWorm 4100 Hardware Reference guide. 2.When your terminal emulator app stops reporting info, press Enter to come up with the login punctual.

Setting the move IP Address To upgrade the default internet protocol address and linked information: 1.Enter the ipAddrSet get at the terminal emulator application prompt, in addition to enter the requested facts at the prompts: switch:admin> ipaddrset Ethernet internet protocol Address [10.77.77.77]:10.32.53.47 Ethernet Subnetmask [255.0.0.0]:255.255.240.0 Fibre Channel IP handle [0.0.4.0]: Fibre sales channel Subnetmask [0.zero.0.0]: entry IP Address [0.0.0.0]:10.32.seventy two.1 Set IP target now? [y = set now, and = next reboot]:y IP address staying changed... Committing setup...Done. Switch:admin> 2.Optionally, examine that the address had been correctly set by way of typing the ipAddrShow command at the punctual.

3.Record the IP address within the pull out tab (discover Figure 1 on-page -6) provided for this reason on the port side of the SilkWorm 4100. 4.If your serial port is no longer required, log out of your serial console, remove the serial cable, in addition to replace the plug in the serial opening.

Creating an Ethernet Connection To create the Ethernet connection to the actual SilkWorm 4100: 1.Remove the put from the Ethernet port. 2.Connect an Ethernet cable towards the switch Ethernet slot and to the workstation or to an Ethernet network containing the particular workstation. Note At here, the switch is often accessed remotely, by simply command line or maybe by Brocade advanced Web Tools. Ensure that the switch is not becoming modified from any connections during the left over tasks.

Completing swap Configuration To complete the particular switch configuration: 1.Log on to the transition by telnet, utilizing the administrative account. 2.Modify the area ID if required. The default domain id is 1. In case the switch is not power on until following it is connected to the fabric and the default domain name ID is already utilized, the domain identity for the new switch is automatically recast to a unique importance. If the switch is definitely connected to the fabric immediately after is has been driven on and the default domain ID is in use, the fabric portions. To find the domain IDs that are currently utilised, run the fabricShow command on yet another switch in the cloth.

a.Disable the particular switch by writing the switchDisable command. b.Enter this configure command. a command prompts demonstrate sequentially; enter a fresh value or click Enter to accept just about every default value. G.Enter y following your Fabric parameters fast :

Fabric parameters (certainly, y, no, m ): [no] y d.Enter a unique domain identity (such as the domain username used by the previous swap, if still out there ): Domain: (1..239) [1] 3 e.Complete the remaining prompts or press Ctrl-D to take the remaining settings with no completing all the requests. f.Reenable a switch by entering a switchEnable command. 3.Optionally, specify any custom status policies : a.Enter the particular switchStatusPolicySet command along at the prompt. This order sets the policy parameters that determine entire switch status. b.Customize the position policies as preferred. To deactivate the particular alarm for a condition, type 0 in the prompt for that affliction. 4.Install a SFP transceivers within the Fibre Channel plug-ins, as required. Your ports selected to be used in trunking teams must meet certain requirements. For a listing of these requirements, reference the Brocade clothing OS Features guidebook. a.Remove the plugs from the slots to be used. b.Position a transceiver so that it is oriented the right way and insert them into a port right until it is firmly parked and the latching process clicks. For information specific to the type of transceiver, refer to this transceiver manufacturers proof. Note The transceivers are usually keyed to ensure appropriate orientation. If a transceiver does not install very easily, ensure that it is the right way oriented. c.Repeat Steps a plus b for the remaining ports, as required. 5.Connect your cables to the transceivers. The cables included in trunking groups will have to meet specific demands. For a list of these kind of requirements, refer to the Brocade Fabric OS capabilities Guide. Caution

A 50-micron cable should not be damaged to a radius not as much as 2 inches beneath full tensile load and 1.a couple of inches with no tensile load. Tie gadgets are not recommended for to prevent cables because they are very easily overtightened.

a.Orient a cable connection so that the key (a ridge on one side connected with connector) aligns while using the slot in the transceiver. Then, insert the cable into the transceiver until the latching device clicks. For directions specific to cable tv type, refer to the actual cable manufacturers records. Note The cable fittings are keyed to make sure correct orientation. In case a transceiver does not mount easily, ensure that it's correctly oriented. b.Repeat Step your for the remaining transceivers as required. 6.Check the LEDs to verify that all ingredients are functional. REgarding information about LED designs, refer to the SilkWorm 4100 Hardware Reference guide. 7.Verify the proper operation of the SilkWorm 4100 by writing the switchShow command from the workstation. This command provides more knowledge about switch and dock status. 8.Verify the correct operation of the SilkWorm 4100 in the fabric by typing the fabricShow demand from the workstation. This command provides standard information about the fabric. 9.Back up the swap configuration to an file transfer protocol server by typing the configUpload demand and following the requires. This command uploads the switch construction to the server, making it available for downloading to the replacement switch when necessary. Brocade recommends driving in reverse the configuration on a regular basis to ensure that a complete construction is available for installing to a replacement turn. For specific guidelines about how to back up the configuration, refer to the Fabric OS techniques Guide. The switchShow, fabricShow, and configUpload commands are explained in detail in the cloth OS Command reference Manual.

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