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Important Notes
This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release.
Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility
Brocade Network Advisor greatly simplifies the steps involved in daily operations while improving the
performance and reliability of the overall SAN and IP networking environment. Brocade Network Advisor
unifies, under a single platform, network management for SAN, LAN and converged networks. Brocade Network
Advisor provides a consistent user experience, across the entire Brocade portfolio of switches, routers and
adapters.
Brocade Network Advisor provides health and performance dashboards, with an easy-to-use graphical user
interface and comprehensive features that automate repetitive tasks. With Brocade Network Advisor, storage
and network administrators can proactively manage their SAN environments to support non-stop networking,
address issues before they impact operations, and minimize manual tasks.
Brocade Network Advisor is available with flexible packaging and licensing options for a wide range of network
deployments and for future network expansion. Brocade Network Advisor 12.4.0 is available in
SAN-only edition
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IP-only edition
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SAN+IP edition.
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For SAN Management, Network Advisor 12.4.0
Network Advisor Professional: a fabric management application that is ideally suited for small-size
Network Advisor Professional
Network Advisor Professional
Network Advisor Professional
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businesses that need a lightweight management product to manage their smaller fabrics. It manages two
FOS fabric at a time and up to 300 switch ports. It provides support for Brocade FC switches, Brocade
HBAs / CNAs, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches.
Network Advisor Professional Plus: a SAN management application designed for medium-size businesses
Network Advisor Professional Plus
Network Advisor Professional Plus
Network Advisor Professional Plus
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or departmental SANs for managing up to thirty-six physical or virtual fabrics (FOS) and up to 2,560 switch
ports. It supports Brocade backbone and director products (DCX 8510-4/DCX-4S, 48Ks, etc.), FC
switches, Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) switches, Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) switches/ Integrated Routing
(IR) capabilities, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) / DCB switches, and Brocade HBAs / CNAs.
Network Advisor Enterprise: a management application designed for enterprise-class SANs for managing
Network Advisor Enterprise
Network Advisor Enterprise
Network Advisor Enterprise
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up to one hundred physical or virtual fabrics and up to 15,000 switch ports. Network Advisor SAN
Enterprise supports all the hardware platforms and features that Network Advisor Professional Plus
supports, and adds support for the Brocade DCX Backbone (DCX 8510-8/DCX) and Fiber Connectivity
(FICON) capabilities.
More details about Network Advisor's new enhancements can be found in the Network Advisor 12.4.0 Release
Notes, Network Advisor 12.4.0 User Guide, and Network Advisor 12.4.0 Installation, Migration, & Transition
Guides.
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Brocade Network Advisor 12.4.0 or later is required to manage switches running FOS 7.4.0 or later.
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The Brocade Network Advisor seed switch should always have the highest FOS version used in the fabric.
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WebTools Compatibility
FOS v7.4.0 is qualified and supported with Oracle Java version 7 update 76 and Java version 8 update 51.
Please refer to the "Other Important Notes and Recommendations" section for more details.
SMI Compatibility
It is important to note that host SMI-S agents cannot be used to manage switches running FOS v7.4.
If users want to manage a switch running FOS v7.4 using SMI-S interface, they must use Brocade Network
Advisor's integrated SMI agent.
Fabric OS 7.4.1a Release Notes v3.0
available in three editions:
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