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Interoperability
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Port negotiation
The Embedded Switch Module has been designed to be highly interoperable. Eight Gbps ports
support 2, 4, and 8 Gbps transmit and receive rates with autonegotiation. You can also install 4
Gbps SFPs, which allow 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps, and 4 Gbps transmit and receive rates with
autonegotiation. The actual data signaling rate used on a port is automatically sensed and set to
the rate supported by the device or devices attached to the port.
If the Embedded Switch Module is connected to a device, but is unable to negotiate the signaling
rate, the operator can manually set the speed of each port through the management interface.
The Embedded Switch Module is compliant with current Fibre Channel standards, including most
current-generation switch N_Ports, NL_Ports, and E_Ports as well as host adapters, Redundant
Array of Independent Disks (RAID) storage devices, hubs, Fibre-SCSI bridge devices, and older
switch families.
Operating system support
Brocade Fabric OS has no specific host OS dependencies. The Fabric OS in the switches allows for
any Fibre Channel-compliant device to attach to switches as long as it conforms to the standards
for device login, name service, and related Fibre Channel features. The operating systems listed in
Table 4 are for the host machine running Brocade management applications outside the Fabric OS,
such as Fabric Manager and Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM). For the latest
information on operating system support for these applications, refer to the latest released
versions of Fabric Manager and EFCM documentation.
TABLE 4 Supported Operating Systems - Fabric Manager
Operating System Version
Windows 2000 N/A
Windows 2003 N/A
Windows XP N/A
Solaris 8, 9, 10
Linux Red Hat Enterprise AS 3.0, AS 4.0
TABLE 5 Supported Operating Systems - EFCM
Operating System Version
Windows 2000 SP4
Windows 2003 SP1
Windows XP XP2
Solaris 9, 10
Linux Red Hat 9.0
Linux Red Hat Enterprise ES 3.0, ES 4.0, ES 5.0
SuSe Linux Professional Edition
version 9.2
9.2, 9.3
SuSe Linux version 10.0 10.0
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