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Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Zone management in interoperable fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Zoning restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Zone name restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Zoning modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Setting the safe zone mode on a stand-alone switch . . . . . . .308
Setting the safe zone mode fabric-wide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Disabling safe zone mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Effective zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Saving the effective zone configuration to the
Defined Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309
Frame Redirection in interoperable fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309
Traffic Isolation zones in interoperable fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310
Brocade SANtegrity implementation in mixed fabric SANS . . . . . .310
Fabric OS Layer 2 Fabric Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
E_Port authentication between Fabric OS and M-EOS switches . .311
Switch authentication policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313
Dumb switch authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
Authentication of EX_Port, VE_Port, and VEX_Port
connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Authentication of VE_Port-to-VE_Port connections . . . . . . . . .318
Authentication of VEX_Port-to-VE_Port connections . . . . . . . .321
Authentication of VEX_Port-to-VEX_Port connections . . . . . . .322
FCR SANtegrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322
Fabric Binding behavior in a mixed fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
Configuring the preferred domain ID and the insistent
domain ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
FICON implementation in a mixed fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324
Fabric OS version change restrictions in an interoperable
environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324
Coordinated Hot Code Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
Bypassing the Coordinated HCL check on firmware
download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
Coordinated HCL on switches firmware downloads . . . . . . . .326
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for HCL for
interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
McDATA-aware features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
McDATA-unaware features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327
M-EOS feature limitations in mixed fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329
Supported hardware in an interoperable environment . . . . . . . . .330
Supported features in an interoperable environment . . . . . . . . . .332
Unsupported features in an interoperable environment . . . . . . . .335
Chapter 15 Managing Administrative Domains
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .337