HP Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration - Page 662

About Interop Mode Switch Feature D_S_TOV E_D_TOV R_A_TOV Trunking Default zone Zoning attributes Zone propagation VSAN TE ports and SAN port channel s FSPF Advanced Fibre Channel Features and Concepts Changes if Interoperability Is Enabled Verify that the Distributed Services Time Out Value timers match exactly. Verify that the Error Detect Time Out Value timers match exactly. Verify that the Resource Allocation Time Out Value timers match exactly. Trunking is not supported between two different vendor's switches. This feature may be disabled on a per port or per switch basis. The default zone operation of permit (all nodes can see all other nodes) or deny (all nodes are isolated when not explicitly placed in a zone) may change. Zones may be limited to the pWWN and other proprietary zoning methods (physical port number) may be eliminated. Note On a Brocade switch, use the cfgsave command to save fabric-wide zoning configuration. This command does not have any effect on Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches if they are part of the same fabric. You must explicitly save the configuration on each Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch. Some vendors do not pass the full zone configuration to other switches, only the active zone set gets passed. Verify that the active zone set or zone configuration has correctly propagated to the other switches in the fabric. Interop mode only affects the specified VSAN. Note Interop modes cannot be enabled on FICON-enabled VSANs. TE ports and SAN port channels cannot be used to connect Cisco switches to non-Cisco SAN switches. Only E ports can be used to connect to non-Cisco SAN switches. TE ports and SAN port channels can still be used to connect a Cisco switch to other Cisco SAN switches even when in interop mode. The routing of frames within the fabric is not changed by the introduction of interop mode. The switch Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide 616 OL-16597-01