Appendix B. Standards And Protocol Compliance; Standards; Protocol Compliance; Support For Fibre Channel Ports - IBM 3534-F08 Installation And User Manual

Appendix B. Standards and protocol compliance

IBM is committed to providing products that comply with industry standards and
protocols.

Standards

The 3534 Model F08 is compliant with the following standards:
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v SCSI Enclosure Services, Rev 8a
v EA/TIA RS-232 Serial Port specification
v Gigabit Interface Converter Definition Document, Sun, and so on
v IEEE 802.3 for Ethernet

Protocol compliance

The 3534 Model F08 complies with the following standards and protocols.

Support for Fibre Channel ports

All ports on the 3534 Model F08 are universal ports and support F_port
(point-to-point), FL_port (loop), and E_port (switch-to-switch) port connections.

Fibre Channel class operation

The 3534 Model F08 supports Fibre Channel Class 2, Class 3, and Class F
operations on all ports.

Auto-configuration

All ports support E_ports to allow for cascading switches to form larger fabrics.
E_ports are auto-configuring. Linking ports from any two switches automatically
configures an E_port connection to form the fabric. The 3534 Model F08 supports a
trunking option that binds up to four ports together as a high-performance trunk
group. In this trunking configuration, interswitch data transfers can occur at an
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Fibre Channel ANSI Specifications
– FC-PH, version 4.3 (Fibre Channel Physical)
– FC-PH-2, version 7.4 (Fibre Channel Physical, Enhanced) for Multicast and
Broadcast functions
– FC-PH-3, version 9.4
– FC-SW-2, version 4.4 (Fibre Channel Switched Fabric)
– FC-FG Revision 3.5 (Fabric Generic Requirements)
– FC-AL, version 4.5 (Arbitrated Loop)
– FC-AL-2, version 5.7 (Arbitrated Loop Extensions)
– FC-FLA, version 2.7 (Fabric Loop Attach)
– FC-GS-2, version 5.3 (Generic Services)
– FC-GS-3, version 6.42 or later (Generic Services)
– FC-PLDA, version 2.1 (Private Loop Direct Attach)
– FC-Tape Fibre Channel Tape (FC-Tape)
– FCP-2Rev4 (Fibre Channel Protocol)
– FC-FS Revision 0.2 or later
– FC-IP
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