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Planning Considerations for Fibre Channel Topologies 3 Minimum Requirements The following are minimum hardware, firmware, and software requirements to configure and enable a FICON-cascaded SAN: • A single-vendor switching environment with two or more of the following McDATA directors or switches: - Intrepid 6064 or 6140 Director. - Sphereon 3232 Fabric Switch. • E/OS Version 4.0 (or later) must be installed on all directors or switches. E/OS firmware Version 6.0 (or later) is recommended. All fabric elements must be at the same firmware version level. • The SANtegrity Binding feature key must be installed and enabled on all directors and switches. Enterprise Fabric Mode must also be enabled on all fabric elements. • Enterprise Fabric Connectivity manager (EFCM) Version 6.0 or later must be installed on the director or switch management server. SANavigator 4.2 or EFCM 8.6 is recommended. • One or more of the following IBM servers with FICON or FICON Express™ channel adapter cards: - eServer zSeries 800 (z800) processor. - eServer zSeries 900 (z900) processor. - eServer zSeries 990 (z990) processor. NOTE: FICON cascading is not supported for IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Servers (Generation 5 or Generation 6). • The z/OS Version 1.3 or Version 1.4 operating system (with service as defined in PSP Buckets for device type 2032, 2042, 2064, or 2066) must be installed on the IBM server. • Licensed Internal Code (LIC) driver 3G at microcode level (MCL) J11206 or later must be installed on the IBM server. 3-54 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual