Owner's Manual

Fabric OS v6.3.1_dcb5 for DELL M8428-k Release Notes 1.0 Draft Page 7 of 23
Optionally Licensed Fabric Services
Optionally licensed features supported for FC ports include:
• Brocade ISL Trunking — Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one
logical link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance.
• Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring — Enables performance monitoring of networked
storage resources. This license includes the TopTalkers feature.
• Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations. Fabric Watch includes
Port Fencing capabilities.
• Brocade Extended Fabrics — Provides fabric connectivity over long distances.
Universal Temporary License Support
The above licenses are also available as Universal Temporary licenses, meaning the same license
key can be installed on multiple switches. Universal Temporary license keys can only be installed
once on a particular switch, but can be applied to as many switches as desired. Temporary use
duration (the length of time the feature will be enabled on a switch) is provided with the license key.
All Universal Temporary license keys have an expiration date upon which the license can no longer
be installed on any unit.
Summary of New Software Features
All software features of FOS v6.3.1 release that are supported on the Brocade 8000 platform are
also supported on DELL M8428-k module except where noted in this document. In addition, the FOS
v6.3.1_dcb5 release supports the following features on the DELL M8428-k module:
- Clause 73 10G/1G Autonegotiation
- Clause 73 KR auto tuning
- Layer 3 Static Routes
- IGMP Snooping
New Feature Descriptions
- The sixteen server blade ports on DELL M8428-k (ports 1-16) have autosensing to allow
either 1 or 10GbE operation. In addition these ports also support KR auto tuning.
- Static route feature provides ability to configure IP routes statically there by enabling IP
routing functionality.
- IGMP Snooping provides a mechanism by which the DELL M8428-k can learn forwarding
states on (STP unblocked) ports of a VLAN on which multicast data and control packets need
to be forwarded.