Brocade Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001187-01, April 2009)

x Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
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• Chapter 13, “Working With Diagnostic Features,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade
Adaptive Networking suite of tools, including Traffic Isolation, QoS Ingress Rate Limiting, and
QoS SID/DID Traffic Prioritization.
• The appendices provide special information to guide you in understanding switch output.
Supported hardware and software
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for 6.2.0, documenting all possible configurations and
scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.
The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of Fabric OS:
• Brocade 200E switch
• Brocade 300 switch
• Brocade 4016 switch
• Brocade 4018 switch
• Brocade 4020 switch
• Brocade 4024 switch
• Brocade 4100 switch
• Brocade 4900 switch
• Brocade 5000 switch
• Brocade 5100 switch
• Brocade 5300 switch
• Brocade 5424 switch
• Brocade 7500 switch
• Brocade 7600 switch
• Brocade 48000 director
• Brocade DCX Backbone
• Brocade DCX-4S Backbone
What’s new in this document
• Information that was added:
- Support for new hardware platforms:
• Brocade DCX-4S enterprise-class platform (8 Gbps)
- Virtual Fabrics, including logical switch support
• Supported on the DCX, DCX-4S, 5300, and 5100