DCFM Professional Plus User Manual (53-1001774-01, June 2010)

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About This Document

• Chapter 15, “Fibre Channel over Ethernet,”provides information on how to configure an FCoE.

• Chapter 17, “FC-FC Routing Service Management,” provides information on how to manage

Fibre Channel Routing.

• Chapter 18, “Encryption configuration,” provides information on configuring encryption.

• Chapter 19, “Virtual Fabrics,” provides information on configuring and managing logical

switches.

• Chapter 20, “Zoning,” provides zoning configuration instructions.

• Chapter 21, “Troubleshooting,” provides troubleshooting details.

• Appendix A, “Application menus,”provides information about the main and shortcut menus.

• Appendix B, “Call Home Event Tables,”provides supplemental information about call home

event tables.

• Appendix C, “User Privileges,”provides supplemental information about user privileges and

access levels.

• Appendix D, “Sybase and Derby Database Fields,”provides reference information related to

databases.

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 DCFM 10.4.X, documenting all possible configurations

and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

The following firmware platforms are supported by this release of DCFM 10.4.X:

• Fabric OS 5.0 or later in a pure Fabric OS fabric

• Fabric OS 6.0 or later in a Mixed Fabric

For platform specific Fabric OS requirements, refer to the Table 1 footnotes.

NOTE

Discovery of a Secure Fabric OS fabric in strict mode is not supported.

The hardware platforms in the following table are supported by this release of DCFM 10.4.X.

TABLE 1 Supported Hardware

Device Name Terminology used in documentation

Brocade 200E switch 16-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 300 switch

24-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4012 switch Embedded 12-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4016 switch Embedded 16-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4018 switch Embedded 18-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch

Brocade 4020 switch Embedded 20-port, 4 Gbps FC Switch