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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 36 Configuring FICON
About FICON
• The 32-port Fibre Channel switching module
• Cisco Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem
• Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeSystem
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family supports the Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), FICON, iSCSI, and FCIP
capabilities within a single, high availability platform. This solution simplifies purchasing, reduces
deployment and management costs, and reduces the complex evolution to shared mainframe and open
systems storage networks (see Figure 36-1).
Figure 36-1 Shared System Storage Network
FCP and FICON are different FC4 protocols and their traffic is independent of each other. Devices using
these protocols should be isolated using VSANs.
This section includes the following topics:
• FICON Requirements, page 36-2
• MDS-Specific FICON Advantages, page 36-3
• FICON Cascading, page 36-7
• FICON VSAN Prerequisites, page 36-7
FICON Requirements
The FICON feature has the following requirements:
• You can implement FICON features in the following switches:
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Any switch in the Cisco MDS 9500 Series.
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Any switch in the Cisco MDS 9200 Series (including the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice
Modular Switch).
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Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch.
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MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module.
Open
storage
Open
systems
Control
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Mainframe
systems
Open systems VSANs
FICON VSAN
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