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and virtual) attached to it while allowing easy SAN connectivity. The edge fabric switch provides all the fabric services while Access Gateway connects to the edge switch by what appears as a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) connection. This architecture allows the deployment of many additional servers without requiring a domain and the associated fabric rebuild traffic that is prevalent when switches are powered on, or added, or removed from a fabric. Refer to the Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide available on http://www.hp.com/go/san for more information. Access Gateway support in non-Brocade fabrics In addition to being supported in HP's Brocade fabrics, Access Gateway is supported for connectivity to the following switches: • McDATA 2/16 (ES3216), 2/32 (ES3232), 2/64 (ED6064), 2/140 (M6140), M4400, M4700, & Mi10k • Cisco 9216, 9216A, 9506 & 9509 • McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.00.xx with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b • McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.02.xx or 09.03.xx with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a, 5.3.0b, 5.3.0c or 5.3.0d • McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.06.02 with Brocade FOS 5.3.1, 5.3.1a or 6.0.0b • Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b • Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS versions 3.1(2a), 3.1(3), 3.1(3a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a, 5.3.0b, 5.3.0c or 5.3.0d • Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.1, 5.3.1a or 6.0.0b Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD) IMPORTANT: DPOD is an optional feature supported in the following HP product only: • Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024) See http://www.hp.com for the latest updates. DPOD takes the expansion capability of fixed Ports on Demand (PODs) and adds the flexibility of connecting to any available port as long as a valid license is available. Previously, POD allowed only specific ports to be utilized. With DPOD, any physically available port can be made active as long as a valid license is available. This allows customers the flexibility of automatically changing port assignments where previously the port assignments were fixed and inflexible. Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) The RASLog is modified to support IPv6. RAS will also obsolete traceftp and savecore CLI and add its functionality to supportsave and supportftp. Management Fabric OS 5.3.0 added a new user role, the secAdmin or Security Administrator. This role maintains security administration, including logging and auditing. The addition of the secAdmin role allows users to isolate security management from complete Administrator management. Security Secure Fabric OS is no longer sold as an option, but integrated into Fabric OS 5.3.0 and later. 6

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and virtual) attached to it while allowing easy SAN connectivity. The edge fabric switch provides all
the fabric services while Access Gateway connects to the edge switch by what appears as a Host Bus
Adapter (HBA) connection. This architecture allows the deployment of many additional servers without
requiring a domain and the associated fabric rebuild traf
c that is prevalent when switches are powered
on, or added, or removed from a fabric.
Refer to the
Brocade Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
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Access Gateway support in non-Brocade fabrics
In addition to being supported in HP’s Brocade fabrics, Access Gateway is supported for connectivity to
the following switches:
McDATA 2/16 (ES3216), 2/32 (ES3232), 2/64 (ED6064), 2/140 (M6140), M4400, M4700, &
Mi10k
Cisco 9216, 9216A, 9506 & 9509
McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.00.xx with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.02.xx or 09.03.xx with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a, 5.3.0b, 5.3.0c
or 5.3.0d
McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.06.02 with Brocade FOS 5.3.1, 5.3.1a or 6.0.0b
Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS versions 3.1(2a), 3.1(3), 3.1(3a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a,
5.3.0b, 5.3.0c or 5.3.0d
Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.1, 5.3.1a or 6.0.0b
Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD)
IMPORTANT:
DPOD is an optional feature supported in the following HP product only:
Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024)
See
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for the latest updates.
DPOD takes the expansion capability of
xed Ports on Demand (PODs) and adds the
exibility of
connecting to any available port as long as a valid license is available. Previously, POD allowed only
speci
c ports to be utilized. With DPOD, any physically available port can be made active as long as a
valid license is available. This allows customers the
exibility of automatically changing port assignments
where previously the port assignments were
xed and in
exible.
Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
The RASLog is modi
ed to support IPv6. RAS will also obsolete
traceftp
and
savecore CLI
and
add its functionality to
supportsave
and
supportftp
.
Management
Fabric OS 5.3.0 added a new user role, the
secAdmin
or Security Administrator. This role maintains
security administration, including logging and auditing. The addition of the
secAdmin
role allows users
to isolate security management from complete Administrator management.
Security
Secure Fabric OS is no longer sold as an option, but integrated into Fabric OS 5.3.0 and later.
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