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10 Brocade VDX 8770-4 Hardware Reference Manual

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Software features

FCoE

• Pause Frames (Tx and Rx)

• Priority Flow Control (PFC)

• Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)

• End-to-end, multi-hop FCoE (with proper licensing)

• FCoE and FC zoning and RSCN suppression (name server-based zoning)

• FIP version 1

• FC Fabric Services for FCoE VN-port devices

• Multipath support for FCoE traffic

• FCoE over standard LAGs

• Soft zoning support

Link aggregation

• 802.3ad LACP support

• Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG). A VLAG is a LAG that spans multiple physical switches.

QoS

• 802.1p marking

• Scheduling: Strict priority (SP), Shaped Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (SDWRR)

• CEE provisioning and classification

• Rewrite/marking, queuing

• Congestion control

• Multicast rate limit scheduling

• Port-based SPAN

• Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs (ingress and egress)

• Port-based sFLOW

Management

• IPv4 or IPv6 management

• CLI management utilities

• sFlow

• TRILL Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM)

• Distributed configuration management (DCMd)

Licensing

• FCoE licensing: enables FCoE feature set

• Layer 3 licensing: enables VRF and IPv4 protocols, such as OSPF, VRRP, and VRRP-E