Dell Brocade Adapters - Fcoe Features

20 Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual
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Adapter features
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FCoE features
CNAs and Fabric Adapter ports configured in CNA mode support the following Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) features:
Brocade CNAs support the following features:
• 500,000 IOPS per port for maximum IO transfer rates.
• 10 Gbps throughput per port full duplex
• Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), providing device authentication through key
management.
• Boot over SAN. This feature provides the ability to boot the host operating system from a boot
device located somewhere on the SAN instead of the host’s local disk or direct attached Fibre
Channel storage. Specifically, this “boot device” is a logical unit number (LUN) located on a
storage device. Booting from a direct-attached device is also supported.
• Fabric-based boot LUN discovery, a feature that allows the host to obtain boot LUN information
from the fabric zone database.
NOTE
This feature is not available for direct-attached targets.
• Persistent binding. This enables you to permanently assign a system SCSI target ID to a
specific Fibre Channel device.
• Fibre Channel-Security Protocol (FC-SP) providing device authentication through key
management.
• FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) support for the following:
- FIP 2.0
- preFIP and FIP 1.03
- FIP Discovery protocol for dynamic FCF discovery and FCoE link management
- FPMA type FIP fabric login
- VLAN discovery for untagged and priority tagged FIP frames
- FIP discovery solicitation and FCP discovery
- Login (FIP and FCoE)
- FIP link down handling.
- FIP version compatibility
- FIP keep alive
- FIP clear virtual links
NOTE
The CNA FIP logic automatically adapts to the adequate FIP version and preFIP to enable
backward compatibility.