Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.1 (53-1002446-01, March 2012)

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Disabling bottleneck detection on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Chapter 14 In-flight Encryption and Compression
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309
In-flight encryption and compression overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309
Encryption and compression restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310
How encryption and compression are enabled . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Authentication and key generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Availability considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Virtual Fabrics considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312
Recommendation for compression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312
Configuring encryption and compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312
Viewing the encryption and compression configuration . . . . .313
Configuring and enabling authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314
Configuring encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315
Configuring compression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
Disabling encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
Disabling compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Encryption and compression example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Example of enabling encryption and compression on a port .318
Example of disabling encryption and compression. . . . . . . . .320
Chapter 15 NPIV
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
NPIV overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
Upgrade considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324
Fixed addressing mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324
10-bit addressing mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324
Configuring NPIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
Enabling and disabling NPIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
Viewing NPIV port configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327
Viewing virtual PID login information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328
Chapter 16 Dynamic Fabric Provisioning: Fabric-Assigned WWN
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329
Introduction to Dynamic Fabric Provisioning using FA-PWWN . . . .329
User- and auto-assigned FA-PWWN behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330
Checking for duplicate FA-PWWNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330
Configuring FA-PWWNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330
Configuring an FA-PWWN for an HBA connected to an
Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331
Configuring an FA-PWWN for an HBA connected to an
edge switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332
Supported switches and configurations for FA-PWWN. . . . . . . . . .333