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distances up to 10 km is provided in all B-series switches. For distances greater than 10 km,
an Extended Fabrics license is required. For maximum supported distances based on the link
speed, see “SAN fabric connectivity and switch interoperability rules” (page 152).
• Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM)—Centralizes fabric management through a host-based
application. This is available free for single-fabric management (DCFM Professional), or for
purchase for multiple-fabric management and increased device count (DCFM Professional Plus
and DCFM Enterprise).
NOTE: See Table 20 (page 94) through Table 22 (page 95) for switch models supported
with DCFM, and HP Network Advisor.
• HP Network Advisor—Centralizes fabric management through a host-based application. This
is available free for single-fabric management (Network Advisor Professional), or for purchase
for multiple-fabric management and increased device count (Network Advisor Professional
Plus and Network Advisor Enterprise).
• Fabric Watch—Proactively monitors the health and performance of switches and the fabric.
• ISL Trunking—Combines multiple links between switches to form a single, logical ISL with a
total bandwidth of 64 Gb/s. This feature enables dynamic load balancing of data across
ISLs.
• FCIP Trunking—Allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP
circuits) via multiples of the 1-GbE or 10-GbE interfaces to provide a high-bandwidth FCIP
tunnel and failover resiliency. FCIP tunnels using 1-GbE ports can have up to four FCIP circuits
spread over four 1-GbE ports. FCIP tunnels using 10-GbE ports can have up to ten FCIP circuits
per 10-GbE port. Each FCIP circuit supports four QoS classes as a TCP connection (Class-F,
Hi, Medium, and Low priority).
NOTE: FCIP Trunking is supported only on the 1606 Extension SAN Switch and the DC Dir
Switch MP Extension Blade. For more information, see “B-series 1606 Extension SAN Switch
and DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blade” (page 287).
• Adaptive Rate Limiting—Dynamically adjusts data transmission through the TCP connections
in a FCIP tunnel, based on preconfigured minimum and maximum data rates and by taking
feedback from the quality of the TCP connections. This allows FCIP connections to use the
maximum bandwidth available while providing a minimum bandwidth guarantee.
NOTE: ARL is supported for configuring FCIP tunnels only on the 1606 Extension SAN Switch
and DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blade.
• NPIV—See “SAN fabric connectivity and switch interoperability rules” (page 152).
The following B-series Fibre Channel switches are NPIV compliant:
◦ 16 Gb/s: SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director, SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director, HP
SN6000B 16Gb Fibre Channel Switch; Brocade 16Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem
c-Class
◦ 8 Gb/s: Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class; SAN Switch 8/8, 8/24,
8/40, and 8/80; DC SAN Backbone Director; DC04 SAN Director; EVA4400 Embedded
Switch Module; Encryption SAN Switch; Encryption FC Blade; 2408 FCoE Converged
Network Switch (fibre channel ports)
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