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34 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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• Chapter 11, “Administering Advanced Zoning,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade
Advanced Zoning feature.
• Chapter 12, “Traffic Isolation Zoning,” provides concepts and procedures for use of Traffic
Isolation Zones within a fabric.
• Chapter 13, “Bottleneck Detection,” describes how you can detect and configure alert
thresholds for latency and congestion bottlenecks in the fabric.
• Chapter 14, “In-flight Encryption and Compression,” describes concepts and provide
procedures for configuring encryption and compression on 16 Gbps ports that connect to other
switches using ISLs.
• Chapter 15, “NPIV,” provides procedures for enabling and configuring N-Port ID Virtualization
(NPIV).
• Chapter 16, “Dynamic Fabric Provisioning: Fabric-Assigned PWWN,” describes the Dynamic
Fabric Provisioning feature using the fabric-assigned port World Wide Name (FA-PWWN).
• Chapter 17, “Managing Administrative Domains,” describes the concepts and provides
procedures for using administrative domains.
The second section, “Licensed Features,” contains the following topics:
• Chapter 18, “Administering Licensing,” provides information about Brocade licenses and their
implementation on SAN switches.
• Chapter 19, “Inter-chassis Links,” describes the two different types of ICLs between Brocade
Backbones.
• Chapter 20, “Monitoring Fabric Performance,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade
Advanced Performance Monitoring licensed feature.
• Chapter 21, “Optimizing Fabric Behavior,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade Adaptive
Networking suite of tools, including Traffic Isolation, QoS Ingress Rate Limiting, and QoS
SID/DID Traffic Prioritization.
• Chapter 22, “Managing Trunking Connections,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade ISL
Trunking licensed feature.
• Chapter 23, “Managing Long-Distance Fabrics,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade
Extended Fabrics licensed feature.
• Chapter 24, “Using FC-FC Routing to Connect Fabrics,” provides information for setting up and
using the FC-FC Routing Service.
• The appendices provide special procedures or information for Fabric OS.
Supported hardware and software
In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for Fabric OS v7.1.0, documenting all possible
configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.