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FCIP platforms and supported features
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FCIP platforms and supported features
The following Fabric OS platforms that support FCIP:
• The 8 Gbps Extension Switch.
• The 8 Gbps Extension blade (8-slot Backbone Chassis, 4-slot Backbone Chassis).
NOTE
The 8 Gbps Extension blade is supported in 16 Gbps Backbone and Director Chassis,
IPv6 addressing is not supported in conjunction with IPsec on all platforms in Fabric OS version
v7.0, but will be supported in a later version.
Table 70 summarizes FCIP capabilities per platform.
TABLE 70 FCIP capabilities
Capabilities 8 Gbps Extension
Switch 8 Gbps Extension
blade
FCIP trunking Yes Yes
Adaptive Rate Limiting Yes Yes
10 GbE ports No Yes
FC ports up to 8 Gbps Yes Yes
Compression Yes Yes
Open Systems Tape
Pipelining (OSTP)
• FCIP Fastwrite
• Tape Acceleration Yes Yes
FICON extension Yes Yes
IPSec for tunnel traffic Yes Yes
Diffserv priorities Yes Yes
VLAN tagging Yes Yes
VEX_Ports Yes Yes
Support for third party WAN
optimization hardware No 1
1. Support is planned for a later release.
No 1
IPv6 addresses for FCIP
tunnels
2
2. IPv6 addressing is not supported in conjunction with IPsec in Fabric
OS version v7.0, but will be supported in a later version.
Yes Yes
Support for jumbo frames No 1
MTU of 1500 is
maximum
No 1
MTU of 1500 is
maximum