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Chapter 11, “Administering Advanced Zoning,”

provides procedures for use of the Brocade

Advanced Zoning feature.

Chapter 12, “Traffic Isolation Zoning,”

provides concepts and procedures for use of Traffic

Isolation Zones within a fabric.

Chapter 13, “Administering NPIV,”

provides procedures for enabling and configuring N-Port ID

Virtualization (NPIV).

Chapter 14, “Interoperability for Merged SANs,”

provides information about using Brocade

switches with other brands of switches.

Chapter 15, “Managing Administrative Domains,”

describes the concepts and provides

procedures for using administrative domains.

The second section, “Licensed Features,” contains the following topics:

Chapter 16, “Administering Licensing,”

provides information about Brocade licenses and their

implementation on switches and enterprise-class directors.

Chapter 17, “Monitoring Fabric Performance,”

provides procedures for use of the Brocade

Advanced Performance Monitoring licensed feature.

Chapter 18, “Optimizing Fabric Behavior,”

provides procedures for use of the Brocade Adaptive

Networking suite of tools, including Traffic Isolation, QoS Ingress Rate Limiting, and QoS
SID/DID Traffic Prioritization.

Chapter 19, “Managing Trunking Connections,”

provides procedures for use of the Brocade ISL

Trunking licensed feature.

Chapter 20, “Managing Long Distance Fabrics,”

provides procedures for use of the Brocade

Extended Fabrics licensed feature.

Chapter 21, “Using the FC-FC Routing Service,”

provides information for setting up and using

the FC-FC Routing Service.

The appendices provide special procedures or information for Fabric OS.

Supported hardware and software

In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for Fabric OS v6.4.0, documenting all possible
configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of Fabric OS:

Brocade 300 switch

Brocade 4100 switch

Brocade 4900 switch

Brocade 5000 switch

Brocade 5100 switch

Brocade 5300 switch

Brocade 5410 embedded switch

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