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

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Supported platforms for Fibre Channel routing
Fibre Channel routing is supported on the following platforms:
• Brocade DCX and DCX-4S (FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48, FX8-24, or FR4-18i blade)
• Brocade 5100 switch
• Brocade 5300 switch
• Brocade 7500 Extension Switch
• Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
• Brocade 48000 director, using the FR4-18i blade
For the Brocade 48000 director, EX_Ports are supported only on the FR4-18i blade and are not
supported on 8-Gbps port blades.
For the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S, note the following restrictions:
• EX_Ports are supported only on the FR4-18i, FX8-24, and 8-Gbps port blades. Ports on the
8-Gbps core blade cannot be configured as EX_Ports.
• EX_Ports on 8-Gbps port blades and EX_Ports on the FR4-18i blade cannot exist in the same
chassis; however, EX_Ports on 8-Gbps port blades and VEX_Ports can be online at the same
time in the same chassis.
• The Brocade DCX and DCX-4S have a limit of 128 EX_Ports for each chassis.
Fibre Channel routing on the Brocade 5100, 5300, 7800, and on the 8-Gbps port blades of the
Brocade DCX and DCX-4S require an Integrated Routing license. See “Integrated Routing” on
page 471 for additional information about the Integrated Routing feature.
Supported configurations
In an edge fabric that contains a mix of administrative domain (AD)-capable switches and switches
that are not aware of AD, the FC router must be connected directly to an AD-capable switch. For
more information, see “Use of Admin Domains with LSAN zones and FCR” on page 491.
You can use SANtegrity to configure M-Series switches connecting to a B-Series router. For more
information, refer to Chapter 14, “Interoperability for Merged SANs”.
The supported configurations are:
• FC router connected to a Brocade nonsecured edge fabric.
• FC router connected to a Brocade secured edge fabric.
• FC router connected to a McDATA Open Mode edge fabric.
• FC router connected to a McDATA Fabric Mode edge fabric.
• FC router connected to Brocade secured and nonsecured fabrics with EX_Port trunking
enabled.
• FC router interoperating with older FC routers (XPath v7.4.x, Fabric OS v5.1 and later).
McDATA Enterprise OS switches cannot exist in the backbone fabric.
NOTE
In configurations with two backbones connected to the same edge fabric, routing is not supported
between edge fabrics that are not directly attached to the same backbone. Routing over multiple
backbones is a multi-hop topology and is not allowed.