Dell Brocade 5300 Flow Vision Administrator's Guide v7.2.0
Summary
This administrator's guide covers Brocade Flow Vision for Fabric OS v7.2.0. The manual provides comprehensive instructions for monitoring and analyzing Fibre Channel fabric traffic using Flow Vision. It includes details on configuring flow monitoring, setting up flow generators, analyzing flow data, and troubleshooting fabric performance issues. The document covers installation prerequisites, GUI and CLI usage, flow configuration options, and integration with other Brocade management tools. Intended for storage administrators, SAN engineers, and network professionals managing Brocade Fibre Channel fabrics in enterprise storage environments.
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53-1002999-01 9 September 2013
Flow Vision Administrator’s Guide Supporting Fabric OS v7.2.0
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53-1002999-01 9 September 2013 Flow Vision Administrator’s Guide Supporting Fabric OS v7.2.0
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Copyright © 2013 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ADX, Any IO, Brocade, Brocade Assurance, the B-wing symbol, DCX, Fabric OS, ICX, MLX, My Brocade, Open Script, VCS, VDX, and ...
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Contents About This Document In this chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Chapter 2 Flow Monitor In this chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Overview of Flow Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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SIM-Port attributes and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Sending traffic using a Fabric Assigned WWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Flow Generator and MAPS ...
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About This Document In this chapter •Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii •Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Brocade 6520 switch Brocade 6547 embedded switch Brocade 7800 extension switch Brocade VA-40FC Brocade Encryption Switch Brocade DCX Backbone family: Brocade DCX Brocade DCX-4S Brocade DCX 8510 Backbo...
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Command syntax conventions Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions: command Commands are in bold. --option, option Command options are in bold. -argument, arg Arguments. Optional eleme...
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Brocade Flow Vision terminology The following terms are used in this document. Term Description Defined flow User-created flow; it can be active or inactive. Local flow Flow defined on the switch on w...
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White papers, online demonstrations, and data sheets are available through the Brocade website at: http://www.brocade.com/products-solutions/products/index.page For additional Brocade documentation, v...
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The serial number label is located as follows: Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, 6505, M6505, 6520, 6547, 7800, VA-40FC, and Brocade Encryption Switch—On the switch ID pull-out tab located inside the chassis o...
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Chapter Flow Vision In this chapter •Overview of Flow Vision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •Flow Vision features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Flows1 Flows A flow is a set of Fibre Channel (FC) frames or packets that share similar traits, such as an ingress port or egress port identifier or any other data that can be used to differentiate on...
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Flows When creating or viewing a flow, you can specify any combination of the three features in the flow command. For example: flow --create flowname -feature monitor,generator <parameters> flow...
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Flows1 Flow frametype parameters Frame monitoring can be done for a variety of frames using predefined -frametype parameters. Table 3 list these parameters and the frames counted for each. On Gbps-cap...
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Flows Numbers of flows supported Flow Vision supports a maximum of 512 flows on chassis-based platforms and a maximum of flows on fixed-port platforms. However, there is a combined limit from all feat...
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Flow Vision references1 The following example displays all the existing flows on the switch. switch:admin> flow --show Flow Name Feature Src Dev Dst Dev |Ingr Pt|Egr Pt |Bi Dir| LUN Frame Type| loc...
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Flow Vision references Firmware upgrading and downgrading and Flow Vision There are no restrictions on upgrading the firmware of a switch that has Flow Vision installed. Downgrading the firmware on a ...
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Flow Vision references1 Flow Vision Administrator’s Guide
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Chapter X Flow Monitor In this chapter •Overview of Flow Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •Flow Monitor management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Flow Monitor management2 Flow Monitor management The following sections describe how to manage the Flow Monitor feature. Creating Flow Monitor flows To create a Flow Monitor flow, enter the flow --cre...
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Flow Monitor management Creating an inactive flow in Flow Monitor To create an inactive Flow Monitor flow, enter the flow --create command with the -noactivate keyword. flow --create flowname -feature...
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Flow Monitor management2 Viewing Flow Monitor flows To display Flow Monitor flows, enter flow --show flowname -feature monitor. The displayed information includes: Frame Statistics: Frame count and ra...
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Flow Monitor examples Resetting Flow Monitor flow statistics To clear the statistics for a Flow Monitor flow, enter flow --reset flowname -feature monitor. The following example clears the statistics ...
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Flow Monitor examples2 I/O Count I/O Per Sec.(IOPS) I/O bytes Transferred I/O bytes Per Sec. Reads Writes/ Total Reads Writes/ Total Reads Writes/ Total Reads Writes/ Total Viewing summary flow data f...
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Flow Monitor examples |Ingr Pt|Egr Pt |Bi Dir| LUN Frame Type| |30 |no Denotes feature is currently activated for the flow switch:admin> flow --show ingress TT -feature monitor Name ingresstt Featu...
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Flow Monitor examples2 |Frame Size(Bytes)| Tx Rx I/O Count I/O Per Sec.(IOPS) I/O bytes Transferred I/O bytes Per Sec. Reads Writes/ Total Reads Writes/ Total Reads Writes/ Total Reads Writes/ Total F...
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Flow Monitor examples Ingress or egress Top Talker monitor You can use the learn flow (“*”) parameter to create the equivalent to a Top Talker monitor. A Talker monitor is used to identify high volume...
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Flow Monitor examples2 switch:admin> flow --show egresstt Name egresstt Features: mon(Activated) no Config: Off Definition: Egr Port(0/30),Src Dev(*),Dst Dev(*) Flow Monitor (Activated): Monitor ti...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics NOTE You cannot create a learned flow in a trunk group. The following example displays the trunked ports and then creates four flows, one for each member of the...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics2 In Figure 3, the physical devices are A, B, and C, and have the port WWNs a, b, and c, respectively. Figure 4 provides the port WWN values for the following ex...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics Definition: Ingr Port(219),Src Dev(10:00:00:05:1e:e8:e2:00),Dst Dev(20:00:00:11:0d:e4:18:00) Flow Monitor (Activated): Monitor time: Mon Jun 14:59:58 UTC Rx Fra...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics2 Backbone-to-edge To monitor a flow from Device C to Device A egressing through EX_Port1, the source device (srcdev) is “Port WWN c”, the destination device (ds...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics Edge-to-backbone To monitor a flow from Device A to Device C ingressing through EX_Port1, the source device (srcdev) is “Port WWN a”, the destination device (ds...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics2 Monitoring FC router fabrics using proxy IDs The following examples present flow definitions using deviceidmode set to PID mode. flow --control -deviceidmode p...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics DCX_Backbone128:admin> switchshow |grep Port Index Slot Port Address Media Speed State Proto id N16 Online FC EX-Port 10:00:00:05:33:ef:f1:1c "Wasp_edge...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics2 Edge-to-edge through an egress port To monitor a flow from Device B to Device A egressing through EX_Port1, the source device (srcdev) is Device B′, the destin...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics Backbone-to-edge To monitor a flow from Device C to Device A egressing through EX_Port1, the source device (srcdev) is Device C′, the destination device (dstdev...
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Monitoring Fibre Channel routed fabrics2 Edge-to-backbone To monitor a flow from Device A to Device C ingressing through EX_Port1, the source device (srcdev) is Device A, the destination device (dstde...
Manual Details
| Brand | Brocade |
|---|---|
| Pages | 72 |
| File Size | 1.11 MB |
| Published | May 16, 2026 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
What software versions are supported?
Fabric OS v7.2.0 is supported.
How do I view learned flow output?
You can view the output of a learned flow in Flow Monitor.
What are the main components of Flow Vision?
Flow Vision includes Flow Monitor and Flow Generator.
Where is the switch serial number located?
The switch serial number is located on the front of the switch chassis.