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

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Chapter

Interoperability for Merged SANs

In this chapter

•Interoperability overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

•Connectivity solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

•Domain ID offset modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

•McDATA Fabric mode configuration restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

•McDATA Open Fabric mode configuration restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

•Interoperability support for logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

•Switch configurations for interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

•Zone management in interoperable fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

•Frame Redirection in interoperable fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

•Traffic Isolation zones in interoperable fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

•Brocade SANtegrity implementation in mixed fabric SANS . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

•E_Port authentication between Fabric OS and M-EOS switches . . . . . . . . 311

•FCR SANtegrity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

•FICON implementation in a mixed fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

•Fabric OS version change restrictions in an interoperable environment. . 324

•Coordinated Hot Code Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

•McDATA-aware features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

•McDATA-unaware features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

•Supported hardware in an interoperable environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

•Supported features in an interoperable environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

•Unsupported features in an interoperable environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Interoperability overview

A mixed fabric is one with Fabric OS switches and McDATA Enterprise OS switches (M-EOS). The

interoperability mode of the switch can be McDATA Fabric mode, McDATA Open Fabric mode, or

Brocade Native mode. All switches must have the same interoperability mode set. All fabric mode

changes can only be performed when the switch is disabled or offline and any platform

management functions must be disabled. Interoperability supports enabling the switch with the

following modes:

• InteropMode 0 for Brocade Native mode, which supports all stand-alone Brocade fabrics, but

provides no interoperability support.