Fcoe Features - Dell Brocade Adapters Installation And Reference Manual

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Adapter features

FCoE features

CNAs and Fabric Adapter ports configured in CNA mode support the following Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) features:
Brocade CNAs support the following features:
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500,000 IOPS per port for maximum IO transfer rates.
10 Gbps throughput per port full duplex
Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), providing device authentication through key
management.
Boot over SAN. This feature provides the ability to boot the host operating system from a boot
device located somewhere on the SAN instead of the host's local disk or direct attached Fibre
Channel storage. Specifically, this "boot device" is a logical unit number (LUN) located on a
storage device. Booting from a direct-attached device is also supported.
Fabric-based boot LUN discovery, a feature that allows the host to obtain boot LUN information
from the fabric zone database.
NOTE
This feature is not available for direct-attached targets.
Persistent binding. This enables you to permanently assign a system SCSI target ID to a
specific Fibre Channel device.
Fibre Channel-Security Protocol (FC-SP) providing device authentication through key
management.
FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) support for the following:
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FIP 2.0
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preFIP and FIP 1.03
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FIP Discovery protocol for dynamic FCF discovery and FCoE link management
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FPMA type FIP fabric login
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VLAN discovery for untagged and priority tagged FIP frames
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FIP discovery solicitation and FCP discovery
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Login (FIP and FCoE)
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FIP link down handling.
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FIP version compatibility
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FIP keep alive
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FIP clear virtual links
NOTE
The CNA FIP logic automatically adapts to the adequate FIP version and preFIP to enable
backward compatibility.
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