Deployment Guide

Brocade DCX Backbone familyTABLE 2
Gen 4 platform (8-Gpbs) Gen 5 platform (16-Gbps)
Brocade DCX Brocade DCX 8510-4
Brocade DCX-4S Brocade DCX 8510-8
What's new in this document
The following items are new or revised in this version of the Flow Vision Administrator's Guide:
• Supported hardware and software on page 11
• Firmware upgrade and downgrade restrictions
• Predefined flow creation and monitoring
• Increase in total number of concurrent flows supported
• Increase in the number of Virtual Channels supported
• Support for the Brocade 7840 extension switch
• Support for deactivated duplicate flow definitions.
In Fabric OS 7.3.0, the separate Flow Vision features have the following changes which are reflected
in the documentation.
Flow Monitor updates:
• Flow performance monitor learning support on E_Ports and EX_Ports.
• Static and learning flow support for both inter- and intra-fabric traffic passing through XISL_Ports.
• Added support for duplicate flow definitions, but note that only one can be active at a time.
• Described chip duplicate flow enhancements.
Flow Generator updates:
• Information on a default predefined flow that automatically generates traffic between all configured
SIM ports in a switch.
Flow Mirror updates:
• Support for combining the following keywords in Flow Mirror commands:
‐ -frametype and -ingrport
‐ -frametype and -bidir
• Support for Gen 5 (16 Gbps) F_Ports and F_Port trunks as either ingress or egress ports on the
following devices:
‐ Switches: Brocade 6505, 6510, 6520, and DCX 8510-4 and DCX 8510-8
‐ Blades: CR16-4, CR16-8, FC8-32E, FC8-48E, FC16-32, FC16-48, FC16-64
With this support, Flow Mirror can mirror frames from both Access Gateways and 16 Gbps Host Bus
Adapters.
• Mirroring traffic to a physical port on the local switch.
• Mirroring traffic to a specific port (physical or virtual) on the local switch.
• Mirroring traffic originating from the CPU to an egress port.
What's new in this document
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