HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.x administrator guide (5697-7344, March 2008)

482 Implementing an interoperable fabric
Determining McDATA-unaware features
Features that are unaware of McDATA switches or fabrics and cannot be used fabric-wide are shown in
Table 104.
FCR Fabric OS L2 SANtegrity Supported only in McDATA Fabric mode.
Name server
(nsShow, nsCamShow,
nsAllShow)
Displays the device PID with domain offset. For example, a
host attached to a switch with domain value 1 will have a
default PID of 0x61AAPP.
ESS Displays the firmware version in the McDATA format as 9.6.2,
and the Brocade format as 6.0.
FABRIC In a mixed configuration, fabric issues ESC exchange to
determine the Domain ID offset setting of adjacent switches.
An incompatible Domain ID offset causes ISLs to segmented.
Fabric also auto-negotiates the credit model usage: R-RDY for
connection to a McDATA switch and VC-RDY for connection
to a Brocade switch.
ZONE Activation In McDATA Fabric mode zone activations can be performed
from any switch.
In McDATA Open Fabric mode, zone activations can only be
performed from a McDATA management tool.
FC Converts the header of FC frames to use the correct SID and
DID according to the domain offset setting.
ASIC The header of FC frames uses the SID and DID according to
the domain offset setting.
Long distance Displays the credit number allocated to a port in the
configure command.
Brocade management
interface such as EFCM and
Web Tools
Allows configuring standalone and fabric-wide tasks such as
basic switch and port.
Table 103 McDATA-aware features (continued)
Feature Behavior
Table 104 McDATA-unaware features
Feature Support
Firmware download Supported on Fabric OS 6.0 switches.
Security
Secure Fabric OS Not supported.
ACL in strict mode Not supported.
ACL in non-strict (Tolerant) mode,
Absent mode, and others (such
as password authentication)
Supported.
Admin Domains Not supported.
FICON and FICON CUP Not supported.
Fabric-wide diagnostics (FC-Ping,
PathInfo)
Not supported.