HP B-series Fabric OS 7.0.2d Release Notes (5697-2822, August 2013--includes all 7.0.x versions)

FCIP FICON Accelerator Enhancements
Fabric OS 7.0.1 and later enables ESCON and Bus/Tag printer emulation support on FCIP
platforms.
This feature provides near native performance for FICON Extended paths to remote ESCON or
Bus and Tag printers. Enabling FICON Printer emulation requires the Advanced FICON Acceleration
license. This feature is supported on the HP 1606 SAN Extension Switch and the HP DC SAN
Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade.
Optionally licensed software
Fabric OS 7.0.2d includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as optionally
licensed software that is enabled via license keys. Optionally licensed features supported in Fabric
OS 7.0.2d include the following:
• Brocade Ports on Demand allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning
additional ports via license key upgrade (applies to select models of switches).
• Brocade Extended Fabrics provides greater than 10 km of switched fabric connectivity at full
bandwidth over long distances (depending on the platform, this can be up to 3000 km).
• Brocade ISL Trunking provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical
link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access Gateway
ISL Trunking on those products that support Access Gateway deployment.
• Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring enables performance monitoring of networked
storage resources. This license includes the Top Talkers feature.
• Brocade Fabric Watch monitors mission-critical switch operations and provides notification if
established limits or thresholds are exceeded. Fabric Watch includes Port Fencing capabilities.
• FICON Management Server, also known as CUP (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of
switches in Mainframe environments.
• Adaptive Networking with QoS provides a rich framework of capability allowing a user to
ensure high priority connections to obtain the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance,
even in congested environments. The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting
features are included in this license, and are fully available on all 8 Gbps and 16 Gbps
platforms.
• Server Application Optimization, which, when deployed with Brocade Server Adapters,
optimizes overall application performance for physical servers and virtual machines by
extending virtual channels to the server infrastructure. Application specific traffic flows can be
configured, prioritized, and optimized throughout the entire data center infrastructure. This
license is not supported on the HP 2408 24-10 GbE w/8-8 Gbps FCoE Switch.
• Integrated Routing, which allows any port in an HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director
Switch, HP SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director Switch, HP SN6000B 16 Gbps FC Switch, HP
StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switch, HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director
Switch, HP 8/80 Base 48-ports Enabled SAN Switch, HP 8/40 24-ports Enabled SAN Switch,
HP 1606 SAN Extension Switch, and the HP StorageWorks Encryption SAN Switch to be
configured as an EX_Port or VEX_Port (on some platforms) supporting FC Routing. This eliminates
the need to add a dedicated router to a fabric for FCR purposes.
• Encryption Performance Upgrade provides additional encryption processing power for the
HP StorageWorks Encryption SAN Switch or an HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director
Switch, HP SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director Switch, HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone
Director Switch, or HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director Switch. The Encryption Performance
License can be installed to enable full encryption processing power.
• Advanced Extension. This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking
and Adaptive Rate Limiting. The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination
address pairs (defined as FCIP Circuits) via multiple 1 GbE or 10 GbE interfaces to provide
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