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Brocade 7800 Extension Switch Hardware Reference Manual 3

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Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

• Before the installation of the Upgrade License, ports beyond the basic four FC and two GbE

are shown as Disabled with the switchShow command.

• On the base 7800, the two SFP ports (ge0 and ge1) can be configured for use with either

copper or optical cables.

• FC frame compression is not the same as IP compression and is disabled by default. It can

be enabled using the portCfg command. For more information see the Fabric OS

Administrator’s Guide.

• FCIP tunnel bandwidth has a minimum rate of 1544 Kbps (T1 rate). Configuration

requests of lower rates will be rejected.

• FCIP Trunking is available which will “virtualize” two or more TCP connections (circuits) as

part of a single FCIP tunnel. Up to four circuits can be configured for a single FCIP tunnel.

See the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide for details on explicitly configuring circuits.

• Multiple FCIP tunnels can share the same GbE port. At the same time, VE_ and VEx_Ports

are not associated with a single physical GbE port.

Available licenses

The following features are available with the purchase of a specific license key for the Brocade

7800.

• Advanced Extension

• Integrated Routing (IR)

• Advanced Acceleration for FICON

• FICON CUP

• Extended Fabric

• Adaptive Networking

• Server Application Optimization

• ISL Trunking

• Fabric Watch

FCIP Trunking Yes

Yes

Adaptive Rate Limiting Yes

Yes

FC frame compression Yes Yes

Storage optimized TCP Yes Yes

Fast Write over FCIP tunnel Yes Yes

Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP tunnel No Yes

FICON XRC emulation and Tape Pipelining over FCIP No Yes

FICON CUP No Yes

1. Requires IR license

2. Requires Advanced Extension license

3. Requires Advanced FICON Acceleration license

4. Requires FICON CUP license

TABLE 1 Feature comparison - base 7800 and with the Upgrade License

Feature Base 7800 with Upgrade

License