Brocade Fabric OS v7.2.1a Release Notes v1.0

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Contents
Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
Resolution of Important Defects ............................................................................................................................. 5
Additional Hardware Platform Support ................................................................................................................... 5
New Features & Support ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Optionally Licensed Software .................................................................................................................... 5
Temporary License Support ...................................................................................................................... 9
Supported Switches .................................................................................................................................. 10
Standards Compliance ............................................................................................................................. 10
Technical Support ..................................................................................................................................... 10
FOS Migration Considerations ................................................................................................................ 12
FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations........................................................................................ 12
Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.2.1a ................................................................................................. 12
Important Notes ......................................................................................................................................... 13
Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility ............................................................................................................... 13
WebTools Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 13
SMI Compatibility ................................................................................................................................................... 14
Fabric OS Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 14
SNMP Support ....................................................................................................................................................... 16
Blade Support ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Scalability................................................................................................................................................... 22
Other Important Notes and Recommendations ..................................................................................... 22
Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization ........................................................................................... 22
Access Gateway ..................................................................................................................................................... 23
Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility .................................................................................................................... 23
D_Port ..................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18 ...................................................... 24
FCIP (Brocade 7800 and FX8-24)......................................................................................................................... 25
FCoE/DCB/CEE (FCOE10-24) ............................................................................................................................... 26
FCR and Integrated Routing .................................................................................................................................. 27
Forward Error Correction (FEC) ............................................................................................................................. 27
FICON ...................................................................................................................................................................... 27
FL_Port (Loop) Support.......................................................................................................................................... 27
Flow Vision ............................................................................................................................................................. 28
ICLs on DCX/DCX-4S ............................................................................................................................................. 28
Native Connectivity (M-EOS interoperability) ........................................................................................................ 28
Port Initialization .................................................................................................................................................... 28
Port Mirroring ......................................................................................................................................................... 29
Port Statistics ......................................................................................................................................................... 29