Specifications

18 Getting Started with the McDATA Intrepid FICON Director
Figure 2-2 McDATA Intrepid FICON Director models
The Directors come standard with all high-availability features in the base unit. You need only
to select the number and type of port cards, the rack-mounting brackets (for factory or field
installation in an FC-512 cabinet), and the power cord.
The Director’s high-availability configuration offers redundancy and maintenance capabilities
such as:
򐂰 All active components are redundant.
򐂰 Active components provide support for automatic failover.
򐂰 Redundant power and cooling
򐂰 Hot swapping of all FRUs
򐂰 Automatic fault detection and isolation
򐂰 Non-disruptive firmware updates
Any unused FICON port or entire card can be used as a spare to take over operation for a
failed port or card. To continue operation, fiber cables from the failed ports have to be
reconnected to the unused operating ports.
2.1.6 FICON SANtegrity feature
If you intend to establish a FICON cascaded Director environment, it is mandatory that the
two Directors are put into a High Integrity Fabric. To do this, Feature Code 6006 for the
Intrepid 6064 or Feature Code 6007 for the Intrepid 6140 (known as FICON SANtegrity), must
be enabled. This feature includes Fabric Binding and Insistent Domain ID functions, as part of
Enterprise Fabric Mode.
Intrepid 6064
Intrepid 6140
McDATA Intrepid FICON Directors
Note: Be aware that the FICON Directors used for a cascaded environment must be from
the same vendor, and both must be on the same firmware level.