Access gateway limitations on the brocade 8000 – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual
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Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000
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Click Manual Balancing and a confirmation dialog box displays. Click Yes to change F
Port-N Port Mapping or click No to cancel the changes.
7. Click Apply to apply the changes.
Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000
The following list the is a compilation of the limitations of using Access Gateway with the Brocade
8000 switch:
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Only the Port Grouping (PG) policy is supported. When the Access Gateway mode is first
enabled, the default PG policy is enforced.
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When the Brocade 8000 runs in Access Gateway mode, all the FCoE ports are F_Ports and all
the FC port are N-Ports.
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Static mapping is not supported on the Brocade 8000.
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When Access Gateway is enabled, F Ports mapping to N Ports is allowed and all 4 FCOE ports
in the trunk group are mapped to the same N Port.
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F Ports mapping to the Port Group level is not allowed.
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You cannot map individual FCoE Ports within the same trunk group to different FC ports.
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All the four FCoE ports in a set will failover or failback to one FC N Port.
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Enabling or disabling of N-port Port Grouping is not allowed
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Port Group modification is allowed
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Login Balancing and Fabric Name Monitoring is not allowed in Add Port Group configuration.
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Login Balancing, Fabric Name Monitoring, F Port Auto Rebalancing, N Port Auto Rebalancing,
and Manual Balance options are not allowed in the Edit Port Group or View Port Group
configuration.