Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide

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McDATA-unaware features

14

DHCP

Yes

Environmental monitor

Yes

Error event management Yes

Fabric Device
Management Interface
(FDMI)

Yes

Fabric Watch (FW)

Yes

Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE)

No

McDATA Fabric mode and McDATA Open Fabric
mode are not supported on the Brocade 8000.

FICON (includes CUP)

No

Supported on the Brocade 4900, 5000, 5100,
5300, and the VA-40FC switches, and the
Brocade 48000 and the Brocade DCX
Backbone.
Note: All switches must be running FOS v6.1.0 or
later to support this feature.

High Availability (HA)

Yes

Coordinated Hot Code Load in Fabric OS v6.1.0.

Interoperability

Fabric OS Native mode: No

McDATA Open mode: Yes

McDATA Fabric mode: Yes

IP over FC

Yes

Works on a local Fabric OS switch. Broadcast
frames are sent to F_Ports only; there is no
forwarding of broadcast frames to E_Ports.

License

Yes

Log tracking

Yes

Long-distance fabrics

Yes

The configure command displays the number of
buffer credits.

Management server

Yes

FICON Management Server supported in
McDATA Fabric mode.

Manufacturing
diagnostics

Yes

N_Port ID Virtualization

Yes

The tested limits for NPIV are 24 NPIV channels
multiplied by 12 virtual port logins.

Name server

Yes

Support Domain offset, McDATA specific
SWRSCN, FCFG commands (GE_PT, GSNN_NN,
GSPN_ID, and GA_NXT).

Network Time Protocol
(NTP)

No

Open E_Port

Yes

Autonegotiates the R_RDY mode by default.
Uses portCfgIsMode to static configure the port.

Port mirroring

Yes

Fabric OS v6.2.0 and later supports 8 Gbps port
mirroring.

SNMP

Yes

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Complete feature compatibility matrix (Continued)

Feature

Support

Notes

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