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Switch Interoperability
Switch Feature
Zoning attributes
Zone propagation
VSAN
TE ports and SAN port channel s
FSPF
Domain reconfiguration disruptive
Domain reconfiguration nondisruptive
Name server
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series NX-OS SAN Switching Configuration Guide
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Advanced Fibre Channel Features and Concepts
Changes if Interoperability Is Enabled
Zones may be limited to the pWWN and other
proprietary zoning methods (physical port number)
may be eliminated.
On a Brocade switch, use the cfgsave
Note
command to save fabric-wide zoning
configuration. This command does not have
any effect on Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
switches if they are part of the same fabric.
You must explicitly save the configuration
on each Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch.
Some vendors do not pass the full zone configuration
to other switches, only the active zone set gets passed.
Verify that the active zone set or zone configuration
has correctly propagated to the other switches in the
fabric.
Interop mode only affects the specified VSAN.
Note Interop modes cannot be enabled on
FICON-enabled VSANs.
TE ports and SAN port channels cannot be used to
connect Cisco switches to non-Cisco SAN switches.
Only E ports can be used to connect to non-Cisco
SAN switches. TE ports and SAN port channels can
still be used to connect a Cisco switch to other Cisco
SAN switches even when in interop mode.
The routing of frames within the fabric is not changed
by the introduction of interop mode. The switch
continues to use src-id, dst-id, and ox-id to load
balance across multiple ISL links.
This is a switch-wide impacting event. Brocade and
McData require the entire switch to be placed in
offline mode and/or rebooted when changing domain
IDs.
This event is limited to the affected VSAN. Cisco
Nexus 5000 Series switches have the capability to
restart only the domain manager process for the
affected VSAN and not the entire switch.
Verify that all vendors have the correct values in their
respective name server database.

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