.Part 2 Fabric Infrastructure Rules HP SAN Design Reference Guide 785352-001

• 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel capability on 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel platforms—Provides the ability
to configure ports on the SN8000B 16 Gb/s 32-port or 48-port Fibre Channel Blades for the
HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director Switch, the HP SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director
Switch, and the HP SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch to operate at 10 Gb/s.
• Advanced diagnostics support on 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel platforms—Provides new and
enhanced diagnostics support, such as Diagnostic port (D_Port), Forward Error Correction
(FEC), real-time power monitoring, and advanced SFP monitoring.
• Dynamic fabric provisioning—Supports Fabric Assigned WWN (FA-WWN), which uses a
virtual WWN for a server instead of the server’s physical pWWN to create zoning and LUN
mapping/masking (requires specific Brocade HBA and driver support).
• Detection and resolution of duplicate device WWNs—Implements a feature to detect duplicate
device WWNs in a fabric.
• FCIP enhancements—Some of the FCIP enhancements include:
10 GigE lossless failover on HP DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade◦
◦ Multi-Gigabit circuits on HP DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade, which allows
more than 1 Gb/s to be configured on a single FCIP Circuit
◦ 10 GigE Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL) on HP DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension
Blade
• Configurable QoS on FCIP tunnel—Provides the option to override the default percentages of
bandwidth assigned to each of the QoS classes within an FCIP tunnel.
• Auto-mode option for compression—Provides the option to automatically adjust the compression
mode (1, 2, or 3) based on the maximum configured tunnel bandwidth on HP DC SAN Director
Multiprotocol Extension Blade and HP 1606 SAN Extension Switch.
• XISL support on HP DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade—Provides the ability to
use VE ports as XISLs on HP DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade only in both 1
Gb/s and 10 Gb/s modes.
• InBand Management on HP DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade and HP 1606 SAN
Extension Switch—Allows you to define one or more IP addresses on the non-management
GE ports and provide a management path from WAN to the switch CP.
• Encryption platform enhancements (HP StorageWorks Encryption SAN Switch/HP StorageWorks
DC Switch Encryption FC Blade)—Fabric OS 7.0.0a (or later) include support for the key vault
diagnostics. The key vault connectivity information is periodically collected and any connectivity
errors are reported as RASlog.
• Security enhancements—Provides the following security enhancements:
SSH authentication using public keys◦
◦ SFTP support for firmwaredownload, configupload and configdownload
◦ IPv6 support for LDAP authentication
• FCoE enhancements—Provides support for high availability for FCoE traffic going through HP
DC SAN Director 10/24 FCoE Blade in HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director
Switch/HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director Switch.
• ICLs (HP SN800B 8-Slot and HP SN8000B Directors)—Provides an additional 1 Tb/s of
bandwidth and does not consume usable ports with an additional full duplex connection. ICL
connections operate as hardware trunked ISLs. A single license will enable all the ICL ports
on the SN8000 4-Slot Director. However, a single license enables only half the available ICL
98 B-series switches and fabric rules