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Intrepid® 6140 Director Installation and Service Manual
Installation Tasks
• Flexport Technology - A Flexport Technology product is
delivered at a discount without all Fibre Channel ports enabled.
When additional port capacity is required, the remaining ports
are incrementally enabled through this feature.
• Full volatility - This feature ensures no Fibre Channel frames are
stored after the director is powered off or fails, and a memory
dump file (that possibly includes classified data frames) is not
included as part of the data collection procedure.
• N_Port ID virtualization - This feature allows up to 256 Fibre
Channel addresses to be assigned to an N_Port.
• Open systems management server - These feature supports
inband director management through OSMS host control.
• OpenTrunking - Thisfeature provides dynamic loadbalancing of
Fibre Channel traffic across multiple ISLs.
• Preferredpath-This feature allows a user to configure a path
between multiple fabric elements (directors or fabric switches) by
configuring the source and exit ports of the origination fabric
element and the Domain_ID of the destination fabric element.
• SANtegrity authentication - This feature enhances security in
SANs byrestricting accessto FibreChannelelements (directors or
fabric switches).
• SANtegrity binding - This feature enhances security in SANs
with a large and mixed group of fabrics and attached devices.
After purchasing a feature, obtain the PFE key by following the
enclosed instructions. Thekeyis analphanumeric stringconsisting of
uppercaseandlowercasecharactersthatmustbeenteredexactly,
including dashes. An example format is:
XxXx-XXxX-xxXX-xX.
Keys areencoded to workonly with theserial number ofthe installed
director. Record the key to re-install the feature if required. If the
director fails and is replaced, obtain new PFE keys from the solution
center (800-752-4572 or support@mcdata.com). Have the serial
numbers of the failed and replacement directors, and the old PFE key
number or transaction code. After obtaining a PFE key, install the
feature as follows:
1. Select Upgrade Options fromtheConfigure,Maintenance,orSecurity
menus at any view. The Maintenance Feature Installation View
displays (Figure 2-14).