Brocade Communications Systems BR-1020 Manual Do Utilizador

Supported features

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FCoE Driver OS support

 lists the operating systems supported on the FCoE driver. 

Supported features

Some features are available only in specific port nodes. These features are identified in 

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TABLE 3

FCoE driver operating system support

Operating System

x86

IA64

IEM64T

AMD64

SPARC

Windows Server 2003, R2, SP2
Requires SP2 plus Hotfix 932755 and 
KB943545

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Windows Server 2008

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Linux SuSE Enterprise Server (SLES) 
10.1 and 10.2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Linux SuSE Enterprise Server (SLES) 
11.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4.6, 4.7

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5.2, 5.3

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Solaris 10.5

1

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

VMware ESX 3.5, U3, U4

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

1

 FCoE driver only. The Networking driver is not supported on Solaris 10.5.

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Port node-specific features

Features

FCoE port

Link Layer (LL) Ethernet port

Physical port

Define name

Yes

No

Yes

Port configuration

Yes

No

No

Persistent binding

Yes

No

Yes

Virtual port configuration

Yes

No

No

Statistics

Fabric statistics, IOC 
statistics

Eth IOC statistics, VLAN 
statistics, Eth statistics

Port statistics,CEE 
statistics, FCP IM 
statistics

Diagnostics

Fibre Channel diagnostics

No

Yes

FC-SP authentication

Yes

No

No

Enable port

Yes

No

Yes

Beaconing (port)

Yes

Yes

No

VLAN configuration

No

Yes

No