Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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• Brocade 5410 embedded switch
• Brocade 5424 embedded switch
• Brocade 5450 embedded switch
• Brocade 5460 embedded switch
• Brocade 5470 embedded switch
• Brocade 5480 embedded switch
• Brocade 6510 switch
• Brocade 7800 extension switch
• Brocade 8000 FCoE switch
• Brocade VA-40FC
• Brocade Encryption Switch
• Brocade DCX
• Brocade DCX-4S
• Brocade DCX 8510 family:
- Brocade DCX 8510-4
- Brocade DCX 8510-8
What’s new in this document
Information that was added:
• Port indexing information for the Brocade 6510 and the Brocade DCX 8510 family of platforms,
and for various types of blades.
• Information for creating and maintaining 64 Gpbs ICLs for the Brocade DCX 8510 family of
platforms.
Information that was modified:
• Chapter 3, “Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks,” contains corrections and additions for
the supported ports and blades throughout.
• Licensing information for ICLs, 10 Gbps FC ports, and 10 GbE ports corrected and clarified.
• Use of FC router for Interoperation between Fabric OS and M-EOS fabrics clarified to reflect the
facts that as of Fabric OS v7.0.0, this method is the only way to interoperate these fabric types.
• FIPS mode information and procedures enhanced to clarify effects of new features on FIPS
mode operation.
• Fabric Naming information for the basic configuration.
• Lossless Dynamic Load Sharing on ports.
• Routing Policy feature.
• Route Selection feature.
• Fabric Shortest Path First feature.
• Dynamic Fabric Provisioning is expanded and moved to a separate chapter, Chapter 16,
“Dynamic Fabric Provisioning: Fabric Assigned WWN”.