Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide

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Port mirroring
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• Using the firmware download procedure to downgrade to previous Fabric OS releases that do
not support port mirroring requires that you remove all the port mirroring connections. If you
downgrade to a previous versions of Fabric OS, you cannot proceed until the mirroring
connections are removed.
• Port mirroring is supported with Virtual Fabrics with the limitation that you cannot have FCR
enabled within the same 8-port group.
• If you have NPIV or 10-bit address mode enabled on a Brocade 300, 5300, 5410, 5450, 5460,
5470, 5480, 7800, and the M5424 platforms, all devices from the same NPIV port or 10-bit
addressing mode hit the same mirror connection, regardless of different AL_PAs, since the
validation is done only for the first 16-bits of the SID/DID.
• Port mirroring is not supported for the shared area ports of 48-port blades in the default
switch. However, when the ports are assigned to a 10-bit address logical switch, port mirroring
is supported.
Supported platforms
Port mirroring is supported only in FC ports. In general, a platform or blade supporting port
mirroring supports both the mirror ports and the mirror connections. Exceptions are listed in
Table 8.
TABLE 8 Port mirroring platform supportability
Brocade Model Fabric OS v6.1.1_enc Fabric OS v6.34.0 Fabric OS v6.4.0 Fabric OS v7.1.0
Brocade
Encryption Switch
Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
FS8-18
DCX-4S
Brocade 8000 Port mirroring is not
supported on either FC
or FCoE ports.
FCOE10-24 Port mirroring is
not supported on
Europa.
Port mirroring is
supported on the
Brocade FCOE
10-24.
Port mirroring is
supported on the
Brocade FCOE
10-24.
FX8-24 Port mirroring is
supported only on
the FC ports. It is
not supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Port mirroring is
supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Port mirroring is
supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Brocade 7800 Port mirroring is
supported only on
the FC ports. It is
not supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Port mirroring is
supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Port mirroring is
supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels