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Brocade Adapters Administrator’s Guide 9
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Supported features
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FCoE Driver OS support
Table 3 lists the operating systems supported on the FCoE driver.
Supported features
Some features are available only in specific port nodes. These features are identified in Table 4 .
TABLE 3 FCoE driver operating system support
Operating System x86 IA64 IEM64T AMD64 SPARC
Windows Server 2003, R2, SP2
Requires SP2 plus Hotfix 932755 and
KB943545 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Windows Server 2008 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Linux SuSE Enterprise Server (SLES)
10.1 and 10.2 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Linux SuSE Enterprise Server (SLES)
11.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4.6, 4.7 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5.2, 5.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Solaris 10.5 1 Yes No Yes Yes Yes
VMware ESX 3.5, U3, U4 Yes No Yes Yes No
1 FCoE driver only. The Networking driver is not supported on Solaris 10.5.
TABLE 4 Port node-specific features
Features FCoE port Link Layer (LL) Ethernet port Physical port
Define name Yes No Yes
Port configuration Yes No No
Persistent binding Yes No Yes
Virtual port configuration Yes No No
Statistics Fabric statistics, IOC
statistics Eth IOC statistics, VLAN
statistics, Eth statistics Port statistics,CEE
statistics, FCP IM
statistics
Diagnostics Fibre Channel diagnostics No Yes
FC-SP authentication Yes No No
Enable port Yes No Yes
Beaconing (port) Yes Yes No
VLAN configuration No Yes No