FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment Planning Manual (620-000124-500, April 2005)

5
Physical Planning Considerations
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Physical Planning Considerations
After purchasing a feature, obtain the required PFE key through your
McDATA marketing representative. A PFE key is encoded to work
with the serial number of a unique director or fabric switch and is an
alphanumeric string consisting of both uppercase and lowercase
characters. The total number of characters may vary. The PFE key is
case sensitive and must be entered exactly, including dashes. The
following is an example of the format:
XxXx-XXxX-xxXX-xX.
Inband
Management
Access
Inband management console access (through a Fibre Channel port) is
provided by enabling user-specified features that allow OSMS or
FICON (FMS) host control of a director or fabric switch. The features
can be simultaneously installed and enabled.
OSMS When the OSMS feature key is enabled at the Element Manager
application, host control and management of the director or switch is
provided through an open-systems interconnection (OSI) device
attached to a product port. When implementing inband product
management through an OSI connection, plan for the following
minimum host requirements:
• Connectivity to an OSI server with a product-compatible host bus
adapter (HBA) that communicates through the Fibre Channel
common transport (FC-CT) protocol.
• Installation of a storage network management application on the
OSI server. Management applications include Veritas
®
SANPoint™ Control (Version 1.0 or later), or Tivoli
®
NetView
®
(Version 6.0 or later).
For information about product-compatible HBAs, third-party SAN
management applications, and minimum OSI server specifications,
refer to the McDATA website at www.mcdata.com.
FMS When the FMS feature key is enabled at the Element Manager
application, host control and management of the director or switch is
provided through a server attached to a product port. The server
communicates with the product through a FICON channel. When
implementing inband product management through a FICON
channel, plan for the following minimum host requirements: