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Adaptive Networking enhancements, Enhanced native connectivity with McDATA products, CEE/FCoE features

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edge fabric, passing through the FC backbone fabric, and then continuing to a destination edge fabric. This feature requires configuration of both LSAN zones and QoS zones, and requires that the Adaptive Networking license be installed on switches in both the edge and backbone fabrics. Adaptive Networking enhancements If one or more applications running on the data center fabric are slowing down, the administrator can enable the new Bottleneck Detection feature on all suspected edge switches to which F_Ports are attached. Using this feature, the administrator can determine whether there are any slow-draining devices causing network congestion. When this feature is enabled and a switch detects a condition where the offered load exceeds the rate at which the destination device can accept frames, a RASLog message is generated and the administrator can view historic statistics logs for the port to investigate the problem. This new capability is considered part of the Adaptive Networking feature set, but does not require a license. This feature is available on all 4-Gb and 8-Gb ports. Enhanced native connectivity with McDATA products • Fabric OS-based platforms operating in interopmode 3 can now participate in Mi10K fabrics using 239 DID mode. Previously, connecting to such fabrics could only be done through FCR. • Fabric OS-based platforms operating in either interopmode 2 or 3 can now participate in M-EOS fabrics using nondefault DID Base Offset settings. NOTE: See the Merging Fabrics Based on M-Series and B-Series FC Switches application note for specific information on what HP supports for B-series and M-series interop fabrics. CEE/FCoE features • 802.1x defines a client/server-based authentication protocol for port access control. It prohibits unknown/unauthorized clients from connecting to an Ethernet network through publicly accessible ports. The authentication server component of the system authenticates each client device or host connected to an authentication-enabled network port. Until the client is authenticated, 802.1x allows only the authentication protocol traffic (EAPOL) on the connected port. Once authentication is successful, the port is open for all network traffic. • The FIP VLAN Discovery protocol is supported with the following caveat: the FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request must be received with either a priority-only VLAN tag (VLAN ID = 0), or a VLAN tag with VLAN ID = FCoE VLAN. FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request received with a valid VLAN ID in the tag that is not equal to the FCoE VLAN is dropped. The expected behavior is that the converged network adapter (CNA) will send a priority-tagged FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request. Optionally licensed software Optionally licensed features in Fabric OS 6.3.0 are as follows: • Ports on Demand-Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports through a license key upgrade (applies to select switch models). • Extended Fabrics-Provides greater than 10 km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over long distances. (Depending on the platform, the distance can be up to 3,000 km.) • ISL Trunking-Enables aggregation of multiple physical links into one logical link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. It also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on the products that support the Access Gateway deployment. 6

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edge fabric, passing through the FC backbone fabric, and then continuing to a destination edge
fabric. This feature requires configuration of both LSAN zones and QoS zones, and requires that
the Adaptive Networking license be installed on switches in both the edge and backbone fabrics.
Adaptive Networking enhancements
If one or more applications running on the data center fabric are slowing down, the administrator
can enable the new Bottleneck Detection feature on all suspected edge switches to which F_Ports are
attached. Using this feature, the administrator can determine whether there are any slow-draining
devices causing network congestion. When this feature is enabled and a switch detects a condition
where the offered load exceeds the rate at which the destination device can accept frames, a RASLog
message is generated and the administrator can view historic statistics logs for the port to investigate
the problem. This new capability is considered part of the Adaptive Networking feature set, but does
not require a license. This feature is available on all 4-Gb and 8-Gb ports.
Enhanced native connectivity with McDATA products
•
Fabric OS-based platforms operating in interopmode 3 can now participate in Mi10K fabrics using
239 DID mode. Previously, connecting to such fabrics could only be done through FCR.
•
Fabric OS-based platforms operating in either interopmode 2 or 3 can now participate in M-EOS
fabrics using nondefault DID Base Offset settings.
NOTE:
See the
Merging Fabrics Based on M-Series and B-Series FC Switches application note
for specific
information on what HP supports for B-series and M-series interop fabrics.
CEE/FCoE features
•
802.1x defines a client/server-based authentication protocol for port access control. It prohibits
unknown/unauthorized clients from connecting to an Ethernet network through publicly accessible
ports. The authentication server component of the system authenticates each client device or host
connected to an authentication-enabled network port. Until the client is authenticated, 802.1x allows
only the authentication protocol traffic (EAPOL) on the connected port. Once authentication is
successful, the port is open for all network traffic.
•
The FIP VLAN Discovery protocol is supported
with the following caveat:
the FIP VLAN DISCOVERY
request must be received with either a priority-only VLAN tag (VLAN ID = 0), or a VLAN tag with
VLAN ID = FCoE VLAN. FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request received with a valid VLAN ID in the tag
that is not equal to the FCoE VLAN is dropped. The expected behavior is that the converged network
adapter (CNA) will send a priority-tagged FIP VLAN DISCOVERY request.
Optionally licensed software
Optionally licensed features in Fabric OS 6.3.0 are as follows:
•
Ports on Demand
—
Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports
through a license key upgrade (applies to select switch models).
•
Extended Fabrics
—
Provides greater than 10 km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth
over long distances. (Depending on the platform, the distance can be up to 3,000 km.)
•
ISL Trunking
—
Enables aggregation of multiple physical links into one logical link for enhanced
network performance and fault tolerance. It also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on the
products that support the Access Gateway deployment.
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