Brocade Fabric OS v6.4.3f Release Notes v1.0

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Contents
Quick Look ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
Resolution of Important Defects ................................................................................................................................ 5
Features & Support .................................................................................................................................................... 5
Optionally Licensed Software .................................................................................................................... 5
Temporary License Support ...................................................................................................................... 7
Universal Temporary License Support ..................................................................................................... 8
Supported Switches .................................................................................................................................... 8
Standards Compliance ............................................................................................................................. 10
Technical Support ..................................................................................................................................... 10
FOS Migration Considerations ................................................................................................................ 12
TSBs - Critical Issues to Consider Prior to Installing This FOS Release ................................................................ 12
TSB Issues Outstanding in FOS v6.4.3 ................................................................................................................... 12
TSB Issues Resolved in FOS v6.4.3 ........................................................................................................................ 12
Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v6.4.3 ....................................................................................................... 13
FOS Upgrades and Downgrades .............................................................................................................................. 13
Important Notes ......................................................................................................................................... 14
DCFM Compatibility ............................................................................................................................................... 14
EFCM and Fabric Manager Compatibility .............................................................................................................. 14
WebTools Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 14
SMI Compatibility ................................................................................................................................................... 15
Fabric OS Compatibility .......................................................................................................................................... 15
Blade Support ............................................................................................................................................ 16
SAS Version Requirements for FA4-18 and Brocade 7600 ................................................................... 21
Scalability................................................................................................................................................... 21
Other Important Notes and Recommendations ..................................................................................... 22
Management Server Platform Capability support changes in FOS v6.4.................................................................. 22
FCIP, FCIP Trunking and High Bandwidth (Brocade 7800 and FX8-24) ............................................................... 22
FCIP (Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i) .......................................................................................................................... 23
FCoE/CEE (Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24) .......................................................................................................... 23
Virtual Fabrics ......................................................................................................................................................... 25
Licensing Behavior .................................................................................................................................................. 25
Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18 ......................................................... 25
Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization ............................................................................................ 28
Access Gateway ....................................................................................................................................................... 28
Bottleneck Detection ............................................................................................................................................... 29
FCR ......................................................................................................................................................................... 29
FC FastWrite............................................................................................................................................................ 29