Web Tools Administrator's Guide (53-1001772-01, June 2010)

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Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000

DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL

• When the Brocade 8000 runs in Access Gateway mode, all the FCoE ports are F-Ports and all

the FC port are N-Ports.

• When Access Gateway is enabled, F Ports mapping to N Ports is allowed and all 4 FCOE ports

in the trunk group are mapped to the same N Port.

• F Ports mapping to the Port Group level is not allowed.

• You cannot map individual FCoE Ports within the same trunk group to different FC ports.

• All the four FCoE ports in a set will failover or failback to one FC N Port.

• Enabling or disabling of N-port Port Grouping is not allowed

• Port Group modification is allowed

• Login Balancing and Fabric Name Monitoring is not allowed in Add Port Group configuration.

• Login Balancing, Fabric Name Monitoring, F Port Auto Rebalancing, N Port Auto Rebalancing,

and Manual Balance options are not allowed in the Edit Port Group or View Port Group

configuration.