Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.0 (53-1002156-01, April 2011)

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Considerations for the Brocade 8000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Policy and feature support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Fabric OS command support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Considerations for the Brocade 6510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Chapter 4 SAN Configuration with Access Gateway
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Connectivity of multiple devices overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Considerations for connecting multiple devices . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Direct target attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Considerations for direct target attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Target aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Access Gateway cascading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Access Gateway cascading considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Fabric and Edge switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Verifying the switch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Enabling NPIV on M-EOS switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Connectivity to Cisco fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Enabling NPIV on a Cisco switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Rejoining Fabric OS switches to a fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Reverting to a previous configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Appendix A Troubleshooting
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