Brocade Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 (53-1002748-01, March 2013)

Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide 1

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Chapter

FCIP Overview

•FCIP platforms and supported features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•FCIP concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

•IP WAN network considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

FCIP platforms and supported features

There are two Brocade platforms that support FCIP:

• The Brocade 7800 switch

• The Brocade FX8-24 blade (DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, and DCX 8510-4 chassis)

NOTE

FCIP connections are not supported between 7800 switch or FX8-24 blades and previous

generation products such as Brocade 7500 switches or FR4-18i blades.

Note there are differences in platform capabilities. For example, the 7800 switch does not support

10GbE ports.

Table 1 summarizes FCIP capabilities per platform.

TABLE 1 FCIP capabilities by platform

Capabilities 7800 switch FX8-24 blade

FCIP Trunking Yes Yes

Adaptive Rate Limiting Yes Yes

10GbE ports No Yes

FC ports up to 8 Gbps Yes (1, 2, 4, 8

Gbps)

Yes (1, 2, 4, 8

Gbps)

Compression Yes

LZ and Deflate

Yes

LZ and Deflate

Protocol acceleration

• FCIP Fastwrite

• Open Systems Tape

Pipelining

- OSTP read

- OSTP write

Yes Yes

QoS

• Marking DSCP Yes Yes

• Marking 802.1P - VLAN

tagging

Yes Yes