Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator's Guide (53-1000243-01, November 2006)

xiv Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000243-01
For practical discussions about SAN design, implementation, and maintenance, you can obtain Building
SANs with Brocade Fabric Switches through:
http://www.amazon.com
For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade SAN Info Center and click the Resource
Library location:
http://www.brocade.com
Release notes are available on the Brocade Connect Web site and are also bundled with the Fabric OS
firmware.
Optional Brocade Features
Optional Brocade features include:
Advanced Performance Monitoring
Enables more effective end-to-end SAN performance analysis to enhance
performance tuning, increase productivity, optimize resource utilization, and
reduce costs.
Extended Fabrics Supports the reliable, high-speed connectivity of SilkWorm switches over dark
fiber or Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) equipment at distances up
to 500 kilometers to enhance business continuance operations.
ISL Trunking Optimizes the performance and availability of SAN fabrics while simplifying
ISL management. Two 4 Gbit/sec SilkWorm switches can automatically group up
to eight ISLs into a single logical “trunk” with a total throughput of up to 32
Gbit/sec.
Advanced Zoning Automatically groups SAN fabric-connected devices into logical zones that
restrict access to “member” devices in the zone. Advanced Zoning uses hardware
enforcement at both the port and WWN level to provide more robust data
protection.
Secure Fabric OS Provides a comprehensive security solutions to help protect mission-critical data.
Key features include centralized policy-based security management, encryption
of management data, and authentication to create a fabric-wide trusted
environment with control over all levels of fabric access and communication.
FICON CUP Enables IBM host-based management programs to manage FICON fabric
switches in-band by sending commands to the Fabric OS emulated control
device.
FC-FC Routing The FC-FC (Fibre Channel) Routing Service is an optionally licensed product
that provides Fibre Channel routing between two or more fabrics without
merging those fabrics. FC-FC Routing is supported on the SilkWorm 7500 and
SilkWorm 48000 when it is configured with a FR4-18i blade and uses
configuration option 5. The FR4-18i blade can be used simultaneously as a Fibre
Channel router and as an FCIP tunnel.