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...group. 58 Access Gateway Administrator's Guide 53-1002743-01 This enables fewer individual links, thereby simplifying management. If a module already has an ISL trunking license, no reconfiguration is installed on that both the Edge switch and the module running in AG mode and you change the switch to the .... How trunking works Trunking in this feature is applied and enabled. On the AG module, you must install the Brocade ISL license on the Edge switch, information in Access Gateway mode provides a trunk group between the switch and AG module to the Enterprise fabric. ...
...group. 58 Access Gateway Administrator's Guide 53-1002743-01 This enables fewer individual links, thereby simplifying management. If a module already has an ISL trunking license, no reconfiguration is installed on that both the Edge switch and the module running in AG mode and you change the switch to the .... How trunking works Trunking in this feature is applied and enabled. On the AG module, you must install the Brocade ISL license on the Edge switch, information in Access Gateway mode provides a trunk group between the switch and AG module to the Enterprise fabric. ...
Brocade Fabric OS v7.1.0a Release Notes v1.0
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... Encryption and Compression Enhancements 7 FEC (Forward Error Correction) Support Enhancements 8 Performance Optimization on FC Long Distance ISLs 8 FOS Security Enhancements...8 FCIP Enhancements ...9 Scalability Enhancements ...9 Fabric Services Enhancements ...9 FCR Enhancements ...10 Access Gateway...License Support ...18 Other Licensing Changes...18 Supported Switches...19 Standards Compliance ...19 Technical Support ...19 FOS Migration Considerations ...21 FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations 21 Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.1.0a 21 Important Notes...23 Brocade...
... Encryption and Compression Enhancements 7 FEC (Forward Error Correction) Support Enhancements 8 Performance Optimization on FC Long Distance ISLs 8 FOS Security Enhancements...8 FCIP Enhancements ...9 Scalability Enhancements ...9 Fabric Services Enhancements ...9 FCR Enhancements ...10 Access Gateway...License Support ...18 Other Licensing Changes...18 Supported Switches...19 Standards Compliance ...19 Technical Support ...19 FOS Migration Considerations ...21 FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations 21 Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.1.0a 21 Important Notes...23 Brocade...
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...Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on Demand-Allows customers to 3000km) Brocade ISL Trunking- The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are included in a DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520, DCX-4S, DCX, 5300, 5100, 7800, or Brocade Encryption Switch to ... to instantly scale the fabric by FOS v7.0 or later. Encryption Performance Upgrade - This license is only required on select embedded switch models and the Brocade 300, and does not apply to enable the capabilities associated with deeper element management functionality and greater...
...Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on Demand-Allows customers to 3000km) Brocade ISL Trunking- The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are included in a DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520, DCX-4S, DCX, 5300, 5100, 7800, or Brocade Encryption Switch to ... to instantly scale the fabric by FOS v7.0 or later. Encryption Performance Upgrade - This license is only required on select embedded switch models and the Brocade 300, and does not apply to enable the capabilities associated with deeper element management functionality and greater...
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.1.0
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... Trunking overview 533 Types of trunking 534 Masterless trunking 534 License requirements for trunking 535 Port groups for trunking 535 Supported ...on a port or switch 538 Displaying trunking information 539 Trunk Area and Admin Domains 540 ISL trunking over long-distance fabrics 540 EX_Port trunking 541 Masterless EX_Port trunking 542 Supported configurations ...trunking information 542 F_Port trunking 543 F_Port trunking for Access Gateway 543 F_Port trunking for Brocade adapters 545 F_Port trunking considerations 546 F_Port trunking in Virtual Fabrics 548 Displaying F_Port ...
... Trunking overview 533 Types of trunking 534 Masterless trunking 534 License requirements for trunking 535 Port groups for trunking 535 Supported ...on a port or switch 538 Displaying trunking information 539 Trunk Area and Admin Domains 540 ISL trunking over long-distance fabrics 540 EX_Port trunking 541 Masterless EX_Port trunking 542 Supported configurations ...trunking information 542 F_Port trunking 543 F_Port trunking for Access Gateway 543 F_Port trunking for Brocade adapters 545 F_Port trunking considerations 546 F_Port trunking in Virtual Fabrics 548 Displaying F_Port ...
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.1.0
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... behavior when failover is enabled or disabled in TI zones 347 Number of ports supported per chip or per trunk 395 Example ISL connections 406 Number of supported NPIV devices 420 AD user types 436 Ports and devices in CLI output 455 Admin Domain interaction... with Fabric OS features 457 Configuration upload and download scenarios in an AD context 460 Available Brocade licenses 464 License requirements and location name by feature 467 Base to Upgrade license comparison 470 List of available ports when implementing PODs 484 Number of logical switches that support ...
... behavior when failover is enabled or disabled in TI zones 347 Number of ports supported per chip or per trunk 395 Example ISL connections 406 Number of supported NPIV devices 420 AD user types 436 Ports and devices in CLI output 455 Admin Domain interaction... with Fabric OS features 457 Configuration upload and download scenarios in an AD context 460 Available Brocade licenses 464 License requirements and location name by feature 467 Base to Upgrade license comparison 470 List of available ports when implementing PODs 484 Number of logical switches that support ...
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.1.0
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..., including Traffic Isolation, QoS Ingress Rate Limiting, and QoS SID/DID Traffic Prioritization. • Chapter 22, "Managing Trunking Connections," provides procedures for use of the Brocade ISL Trunking licensed feature. • Chapter 23, "Managing Long-Distance Fabrics," provides procedures for use of Traffic Isolation Zones within a fabric. • Chapter 13, "Bottleneck Detection," describes...
..., including Traffic Isolation, QoS Ingress Rate Limiting, and QoS SID/DID Traffic Prioritization. • Chapter 22, "Managing Trunking Connections," provides procedures for use of the Brocade ISL Trunking licensed feature. • Chapter 23, "Managing Long-Distance Fabrics," provides procedures for use of Traffic Isolation Zones within a fabric. • Chapter 13, "Bottleneck Detection," describes...
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...36 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 53-1002745-02 Text formatting The narrative-text formatting conventions that said the Brocade 6520 did not require a Trunking license. Arguments. Document conventions This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used are printed in ...an ISL between a device that supports 16 Gbps and a device that supports only 8 Gbps, buffer credit recovery is often all lowercase. In actual examples, command lettercase is disabled. Otherwise, this guide are printed in bold. The Brocade 6520 does require the Trunking license. ...
...36 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 53-1002745-02 Text formatting The narrative-text formatting conventions that said the Brocade 6520 did not require a Trunking license. Arguments. Document conventions This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used are printed in ...an ISL between a device that supports 16 Gbps and a device that supports only 8 Gbps, buffer credit recovery is often all lowercase. In actual examples, command lettercase is disabled. Otherwise, this guide are printed in bold. The Brocade 6520 does require the Trunking license. ...
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...does not have R_RDYs enabled on the device type, driver version, and configuration. This determines the maximum number of Service (QoS) is a licensed traffic shaping feature available in place of QoS zones, traffic can never send frames without the receiving device being able to receive them, so ... illustrated in Fibre Channel uses buffer-to provide higher levels of Quality of Service. The term over -subscribed link may go through an ISL. You should be further prioritized to -buffer credits, which is bottlenecked and fully utilized. Flow control in Figure 7. The data virtual ...
...does not have R_RDYs enabled on the device type, driver version, and configuration. This determines the maximum number of Service (QoS) is a licensed traffic shaping feature available in place of QoS zones, traffic can never send frames without the receiving device being able to receive them, so ... illustrated in Fibre Channel uses buffer-to provide higher levels of Quality of Service. The term over -subscribed link may go through an ISL. You should be further prioritized to -buffer credits, which is bottlenecked and fully utilized. Flow control in Figure 7. The data virtual ...
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.... Any number of the gateway are included when determining switch-count maximums. • Extended links (those created using the Extended Fabrics licensed feature) are not supported through a gateway" on both sides of E_Ports in a fabric can be set for link initialization, gateways ...are transparent to switches; Except for ELP mode 2. the gateway simply provides E_Port connectivity from one switch to as ISL R_RDY mode. Gateway links 4 Gateway links A gateway merges SANs into a single fabric by establishing point-to-point E_Port connectivity between...
.... Any number of the gateway are included when determining switch-count maximums. • Extended links (those created using the Extended Fabrics licensed feature) are not supported through a gateway" on both sides of E_Ports in a fabric can be set for link initialization, gateways ...are transparent to switches; Except for ELP mode 2. the gateway simply provides E_Port connectivity from one switch to as ISL R_RDY mode. Gateway links 4 Gateway links A gateway merges SANs into a single fabric by establishing point-to-point E_Port connectivity between...
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...enabled. You must first delete all Admin Domains. Licensing Licenses are not supported in logical fabrics. Traffic Isolation ...and download Virtual Fabrics uses a configuration file that has XISL use Admin Domains, you must use ISLs to use both ISLs and XISLs. Performance monitoring Performance monitors are not supported at the same time on a switch. ...across the base fabric. Table 52 lists the supported platforms and the maximum number of logical switches Brocade DCX 8 Brocade DCX-4S 8 288 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 53-1002745-02 Refer to Chapter 20, "...
...enabled. You must first delete all Admin Domains. Licensing Licenses are not supported in logical fabrics. Traffic Isolation ...and download Virtual Fabrics uses a configuration file that has XISL use Admin Domains, you must use ISLs to use both ISLs and XISLs. Performance monitoring Performance monitors are not supported at the same time on a switch. ...across the base fabric. Table 52 lists the supported platforms and the maximum number of logical switches Brocade DCX 8 Brocade DCX-4S 8 288 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 53-1002745-02 Refer to Chapter 20, "...
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.1.0
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... such as tape pipelining use Traffic Isolation Zoning for the following scenarios: • To dedicate an ISL to high priority, host-to-target traffic. • To force high volume, low priority traffic onto a given ISL to limit the effect on the fabric of this chapter •Traffic Isolation Zoning overview 345 •... might use the same VE_Port tunnel across a metaSAN. When a TI zone is implemented using E_Ports within that TI zone. Traffic Isolation Zoning does not require a license.
... such as tape pipelining use Traffic Isolation Zoning for the following scenarios: • To dedicate an ISL to high priority, host-to-target traffic. • To force high volume, low priority traffic onto a given ISL to limit the effect on the fabric of this chapter •Traffic Isolation Zoning overview 345 •... might use the same VE_Port tunnel across a metaSAN. When a TI zone is implemented using E_Ports within that TI zone. Traffic Isolation Zoning does not require a license.
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... rate at the sub-second level. 13 Bottleneck detection overview • If the bottleneck detection feature detects ISL congestion, you can use ingress rate limiting to slow down unrelated flows that is contributing to configure separate alert... latency or congestion bottleneck, based on page 391. Best practice is to transmit frames at 8 Gbps over a 4 Gbps ISL. A congestion bottleneck is a port that they cause 98% loss of the line. See "Advanced bottleneck detection settings" on... on to continuously gather statistics. • Bottleneck detection does not require a license.
... rate at the sub-second level. 13 Bottleneck detection overview • If the bottleneck detection feature detects ISL congestion, you can use ingress rate limiting to slow down unrelated flows that is contributing to configure separate alert... latency or congestion bottleneck, based on page 391. Best practice is to transmit frames at 8 Gbps over a 4 Gbps ISL. A congestion bottleneck is a port that they cause 98% loss of the line. See "Advanced bottleneck detection settings" on... on to continuously gather statistics. • Bottleneck detection does not require a license.
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... = 0x1 and R_CTL = 0x4 are of Type != 0x8. Encryption and compression restrictions • Configuration is supported. FCP data frames are of the ISL must be 16 Gbps capable, although port speed can be any configurable value. • The devices at either end of Type = 0x8. For compression...compression. • Ports must run Fabric OS 7.0.0 or later software. • Only E_Ports, EX_Ports, and XISL ports (in VF mode). NOTE No license is needed to work only with trunking, QoS, or long distance features enabled. • Flow control modes: R_RDY, VC_RDY, and EXT_VC_RDY. • XISL...
... = 0x1 and R_CTL = 0x4 are of Type != 0x8. Encryption and compression restrictions • Configuration is supported. FCP data frames are of the ISL must be 16 Gbps capable, although port speed can be any configurable value. • The devices at either end of Type = 0x8. For compression...compression. • Ports must run Fabric OS 7.0.0 or later software. • Only E_Ports, EX_Ports, and XISL ports (in VF mode). NOTE No license is needed to work only with trunking, QoS, or long distance features enabled. • Flow control modes: R_RDY, VC_RDY, and EXT_VC_RDY. • XISL...
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...Exchange (IKE) protocol (HMAC-SHA-512 algorithm) to ports that you connect each ISL to ports that ASIC to use the same set of encryption/compression port failures. ... encryption or compression-enabled ports on that are configured for stronger encryption keys. For Brocade 6510 and 6520 switches, if the two ports are not configured for trunking, it... the event of keys. 14 In-flight encryption and compression overview portHealth: No Fabric Watch License Authentication: None portDisableReason: None portCFlags: 0x1 portFlags: 0x10000103 PRESENT ACTIVE E_PORT T_PORT T_MASTER G_PORT ...
...Exchange (IKE) protocol (HMAC-SHA-512 algorithm) to ports that you connect each ISL to ports that ASIC to use the same set of encryption/compression port failures. ... encryption or compression-enabled ports on that are configured for stronger encryption keys. For Brocade 6510 and 6520 switches, if the two ports are not configured for trunking, it... the event of keys. 14 In-flight encryption and compression overview portHealth: No Fabric Watch License Authentication: None portDisableReason: None portCFlags: 0x1 portFlags: 0x10000103 PRESENT ACTIVE E_PORT T_PORT T_MASTER G_PORT ...
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... upgrades. This license is limited. On a Brocade enterprise platform, a single Performance License can be installed to enable full bandwidth on the platform, this can be up to the Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, 6505, 6510, 6520, and VA-40FC switches. Contact your vendor for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. • Includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on...
... upgrades. This license is limited. On a Brocade enterprise platform, a single Performance License can be installed to enable full bandwidth on the platform, this can be up to the Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, 6505, 6510, 6520, and VA-40FC switches. Contact your vendor for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. • Includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on...
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... you should be installed Speed 8 Gbps license needed to support 10Gb FC ports on the Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, and VA-40FC switches and embedded switches only. The number of physical ports active on attached switches. There is fixed. Traffic Isolation Trunking No license required. • ISL Trunking or • ISL Trunking Over Extended Fabrics N/A Local...
... you should be installed Speed 8 Gbps license needed to support 10Gb FC ports on the Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, and VA-40FC switches and embedded switches only. The number of physical ports active on attached switches. There is fixed. Traffic Isolation Trunking No license required. • ISL Trunking or • ISL Trunking Over Extended Fabrics N/A Local...
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.../time, and then re-install the license on the switch. Remove the temporary license. Temporary licenses 18 • FICON Management Server (CUP) license • Extended Fabrics license • High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC license • Integrated Routing license • Server Application Optimization license • ISL Trunking license Restrictions on upgrading temporary slot-based licenses If the capacity of the permanent...
.../time, and then re-install the license on the switch. Remove the temporary license. Temporary licenses 18 • FICON Management Server (CUP) license • Extended Fabrics license • High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC license • Integrated Routing license • Server Application Optimization license • ISL Trunking license Restrictions on upgrading temporary slot-based licenses If the capacity of the permanent...
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...license, the license enforcement is required for ISL trunking connections. • Buffer-to-buffer credit sharing • QoS Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 491 53-1002745-02 An ICL license must be disabled and then re-enabled for the license to take effect. The only management associated with an ICL license. The Brocade... managed as regular ports, with ICL ports are static and all portCfg commands are supported: • Trunking NOTE A Brocade trunking license is not required for trunking on ICL connections but is performed on the ICL ports only when you issue the portDisable ...
...license, the license enforcement is required for ISL trunking connections. • Buffer-to-buffer credit sharing • QoS Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 491 53-1002745-02 An ICL license must be disabled and then re-enabled for the license to take effect. The only management associated with an ICL license. The Brocade... managed as regular ports, with ICL ports are static and all portCfg commands are supported: • Trunking NOTE A Brocade trunking license is not required for trunking on ICL connections but is performed on the ICL ports only when you issue the portDisable ...
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...allowed, as illustrated in the neighboring chassis. These ports cannot form a trunk with each other, but additional licenses may be required for enabling all ICL ports or for the entire Brocade DCX-4S chassis. ICL trunking on another QSFP. To establish ICL trunking between platforms in Fabric OS 7.1.0, when...NOTE QSFP ICLs and ISLs in Figure 60: • ICL0 ports on the first chassis connect to ICL1 ports on the second chassis. • ICL1 ports on the first chassis connect to the same neighboring switch are 64 ICL ports available for the entire Brocade DCX chassis. All the...
...allowed, as illustrated in the neighboring chassis. These ports cannot form a trunk with each other, but additional licenses may be required for enabling all ICL ports or for the entire Brocade DCX-4S chassis. ICL trunking on another QSFP. To establish ICL trunking between platforms in Fabric OS 7.1.0, when...NOTE QSFP ICLs and ISLs in Figure 60: • ICL0 ports on the first chassis connect to ICL1 ports on the second chassis. • ICL1 ports on the first chassis connect to the same neighboring switch are 64 ICL ports available for the entire Brocade DCX chassis. All the...
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...; ICL1 ports to Chapter 18, "Administering Licensing". The triangular topology requirement must be in the same logical switch. The following ICL connections are managed the same as ISL trunks. • On the Brocade DCX, each ICL is managed as one 8-port ISL trunk. The "Allow XISL Use" attribute for...the logical switch, base switch, and default switch. For more information about ICL licensing options, refer to ICL1 ports ICL trunking on the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S ICL trunks form automatically but additional licenses may be off. • All of the user ports in the specific hardware...
...; ICL1 ports to Chapter 18, "Administering Licensing". The triangular topology requirement must be in the same logical switch. The following ICL connections are managed the same as ISL trunks. • On the Brocade DCX, each ICL is managed as one 8-port ISL trunk. The "Allow XISL Use" attribute for...the logical switch, base switch, and default switch. For more information about ICL licensing options, refer to ICL1 ports ICL trunking on the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S ICL trunks form automatically but additional licenses may be off. • All of the user ports in the specific hardware...