Reference Guide

x Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide
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What’s new in this document
Major new additions or deletions in this document support the following:
• Preface. Added location of serial number label for the Brocade 6505 switch.
• Chapter 1
- Added support for printer emulation in Table 1, “FCIP capabilities by platform,” under the
FICON extension row and referenced statement that this is not supported on FR4-18i
blades.
- Added note under “FCIP platforms and supported features” that FCIP connections are not
supported between the 7800 switch or FX8-24 blades and previous generation Brocade
7500 switches or FR4-18i blades.
• Chapter 2
- Under “7800 switch hardware overview,” added the following notes:
• Copper ports do not support auto-sense functions.
• With copper media, auto-negotiation must be enabled on the other end of the port
connection. 1 Gbps is the only negotiated speed.
- Under 7800 switch license options” and “FX8-24 blade license options,” added FICON
printer emulation to the list of features enabled by the Advanced FICON Acceleration
License. Also added printer and other emulation features to the Advanced FICON
Acceleration License row of Table 2, “7800 FCIP feature licenses” and Table 3, “FX8-24
blade license options.”
- Under “VE_Ports and FCIP tunnels on the 7800 switch” and “VE_Ports and FCIP tunnels
on the FX8-24 blade” added the following note:
- VE_Ports or VEX_Ports cannot connect to the same domain at the same time as Fibre
Channel E_Ports or EX_Ports.
- Under “VE_Ports and FCIP tunnels on the 7800 switch” and “VE_Ports and FCIP tunnels
on the FX8-24 blade” a note was added concerning VE_Ports.
- Under “FCIP tunnel restrictions for FCP and FICON acceleration features,” added
restrictions about FCIP tunnels not supporting DPS and that both ends of the FICON
emulating tunnel must run Fabric OS v7.0 or later if one end of tunnel runs v7.0 or later.
- Under “FCIP circuit failover capabilities, added “Failover in TI zones” section.
- Under “Limitations using IPsec over FCIP tunnels,” added limitation that IPsec is not
supported on VE group 12-21 on FX8-24 blades and that to enable IPsec with Fabric OS
v7.0 and later, both ends of the tunnel must use v7.0 and later.
- Added timeout value information under the “keep-alive timeout” option.
- Under “Creating Additional FCIP circuits,” added note about adding additional circuits to
an active tunnel when multiple FCIP tunnels are present.
- Added notes under the “Setting the GbE port operating mode (FX8-24 blade only)” section.
• Chapter 4
- Under “Inband management,” added that the following functions are not supported by the
inband management interface:
• Downloading firmware
• IPv6 addressing