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Chapter 13. Partitioning.......................................................................................................... 118
13.1 Overview............................................................................................................................. 118
13.2 Brief Functional Description................................................................................................ 118
13.3 Mechanisms Used to Create and Enforce Partitions.......................................................... 119
13.4 Quick Settings..................................................................................................................... 120
13.4.1 Switch Settings (GUI) ........................................................................................... 120
13.4.2 sRB-20210G Settings (GUI)................................................................................. 120
13.5 Setting Partitioning via the GridVision Fabric Manager GUI .............................................. 121
13.5.1 Creating a Network............................................................................................... 122
13.5.2 Viewing Network Information................................................................................ 124
13.5.3 Assigning Server Ports to a Network.................................................................... 125
13.5.4 Deleting Server Ports from a Network.................................................................. 125
13.5.5 Assigning Network Membership........................................................................... 126
13.5.6 Mapping an InfiniBand Partition to an Ethernet VLAN via the 10 GbE Gateway . 126
13.5.7 Multiple Selection for Partitioning Configuration................................................... 128
13.6 Setting Partitioning via the CLI ........................................................................................... 129
13.6.1 Quick Steps to set up a Network and Perform Partitioning .................................. 129
13.6.2 Creating a Network............................................................................................... 129
13.6.3 Deleting a Network ............................................................................................... 130
13.6.4 Viewing Network Details....................................................................................... 130
13.6.5 Viewing the Network Error Log File...................................................................... 131
13.6.6 Binding a Port GUID to a Network........................................................................ 131
Chapter 14. Command Line Interface (CLI) Management................................................. 139
14.1 Starting a CLI Management Session.................................................................................. 139
14.2 Mellanox CLI Model............................................................................................................ 139
14.3 CLI Operating Conventions ................................................................................................ 140
14.3.1 Keyboard Usage in CLI Operation........................................................................ 140
14.3.2 CLI Command Structure....................................................................................... 141
14.3.3 Case-Sensitivity.................................................................................................... 142
14.3.4 CLI Modes............................................................................................................. 142
14.4 Exec Mode Commands...................................................................................................... 143
14.5 Privileged Mode Commands .............................................................................................. 150
14.5.1 Statistics Mode ..................................................................................................... 157
14.6 Configuration (Config) Commands..................................................................................... 159
14.6.1 Cluster Options..................................................................................................... 162
14.6.2 Diagnostics ........................................................................................................... 168
14.6.3 Interface Options .................................................................................................. 168
14.6.4 NTP Options ......................................................................................................... 171