Technical data

Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide vii
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Deleting an IP route on a Brocade 7800 FX8-24 blade . . . . . . . . . .50
Deleting an FCIP tunnel on a Brocade 7800 FX8-24 blade . . . . . . .50
Deleting an FCIP circuit on a Brocade 7800 FX8-24 blade . . . . . . . 51
Virtual Fabrics and the Brocade 7800 FX8-24 blade. . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Port sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 3 FCIP on the FR4-18i Blade
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
FR4-18i blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
FR4-18i blade ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
FCIP design considerations for the FR4-18i blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Virtual port types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Compression on FCIP tunnels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Traffic shaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
FCIP services license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
QoS implementation over FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
DSCP Quality of Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
L2CoS Quality of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
When both DSCP and L2CoS are used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
IPsec implementation over FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Limitations using IPsec over FCIP tunnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Configuring IPsec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
IPsec parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Creating an IKE and IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Displaying IKE and IPsec policy settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Deleting an IKE and IPsec policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Viewing IPsec information for an FCIP tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Virtual Fabrics and FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Options for enhancing tape I/O performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
FCIP Fastwrite and OSTP configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Unsupported configurations for Fastwrite and OSTP . . . . . . . .65
FCIP services configuration guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Setting persistently disabled ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Configuring VEX_Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Creating IP interfaces and routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Creating an FCIP tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Verifying the FCIP tunnel configuration on the Brocade FR4-18i . . 69
Enabling persistently disabled ports on the Brocade 7500 FR4-18i70
Managing FCIP tunnels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Modifying and deleting QoS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Deleting an FCIP tunnel on a Brocade 7500 FR4-18i. . . . . . . . 71
Deleting an IP route on a Brocade 7500 FR4-18i . . . . . . . . . . .72
Deleting an IP interface on a Brocade 7500 FR4-18i. . . . . . . .72