Release Notes

Fabric OS v6.4.3_dcb1 for DELL M8428-k Release Notes 2.0 Page 5 of 15
o NTP, RADIUS, LDAP, Reliable Commit Service (RCS), and
o Dynamic Path Selection (DPS)
- CEE Services:
o Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, MSTP, RSTP),
o VLAN Tagging (802.1q),
o MAC address learning and aging;
o native FCoE Bridging and switching;
o IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LACP);
o access control lists based on VLAN, source, destination address, and port;
o eight priority levels for QoS and greater than 1024 VLANs supported.
o Priority-based Flow Control (PFC);
o Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX)-Capabilities Exchange;
o Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
- Management Software:
o Brocade Network Advisor ( BNA) Professional, BNA 75 days Trial, and BNA
Production:
o BNA uses HTTP/HTTPS and SNMP protocols to communicate with the Brocade
8000 to manage and monitor CEE features
o Enhanced Group Management (EGM), license is already included
o BNA enhancements support the following FCoE/CEE functionality:
o Discovery, connectivity map, and product list
o Configuration management
o Performance management
o Fault management
o Security management
o HTTP/HTTPS, Telnet; SNMP (FE MIB, FC Management MIB, and IF-MIB for CEE);
Web Tools; SMI-S; RADIUS
- Management Protocols
o Industry-common Command Line Interface (CLI)
o Security Shell (SSH) v2
o Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
o Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1, and v3
o Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP