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

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McDATA-unaware features
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DHCP Yes
Environmental monitor Yes
Error event management Yes
Fabric Device
Management Interface
(FDMI)
Yes
Fabric Watch (FW) Yes
Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE)
No McDATA Fabric mode and McDATA
Open Fabric mode are not
supported on the Brocade 8000.
FICON (includes CUP) No Supported on the Brocade 4900,
5000, 5100, and the 5300
switches, and the Brocade 48000
and the Brocade DCX Backbone.
Note: All switches must be running
FOS v6.1.0 or later to support this
feature.
High Availability (HA) Yes Coordinated Hot Code Load in
Fabric OS v6.1.0.
Interoperability
• Fabric OS Native mode: No
• McDATA Open mode: Yes
• McDATA Fabric mode: Yes
IP over FC Yes Works on a local Fabric OS switch.
Broadcast frames are sent to
F_Ports only; there is no forwarding
of broadcast frames to E_Ports.
License Yes
Log tracking Yes
Long-distance fabrics Yes The configure command displays
the number of buffer credits.
Management server Yes FICON Management Server
supported in McDATA Fabric mode.
Manufacturing
diagnostics
Yes
N_Port ID Virtualization Yes The tested limits for NPIV are 24
NPIV channels multiplied by 12
virtual port logins.
Name server Yes Support Domain offset, McDATA
specific SWRSCN, FCFG commands
(GE_PT, GSNN_NN, GSPN_ID, and
GA_NXT).
Network Time Protocol
(NTP)
No
TABLE 68 Complete feature compatibility matrix (Continued)
Feature Support Notes