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Physical Planning Considerations
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McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual
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OpenTrunking - Purchase and enablement of this feature
provides dynamic load balancing of Fibre Channel traffic across
multiple ISLs.
NOTE: SAN routers do not support OpenTrunking.
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Full volatility - Purchase and enablement of this feature ensures
that no Fibre Channel frames are stored after a director or Fabric
switch is powered off or fails, and a memory dump file (that
possibly includes classified frames) is not included as part of the
data collection procedure.
NOTE: The Intrepid 10000 Director and SAN routers do not
support full volatility.
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Full fabric - This feature is provided only for the Sphereon 4300
Fabric Switch. Purchase and enablement of the feature provides
E_Port functionality and additional port BB_Credits.
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Remote fabric - This feature is provided only for the Intrepid
10000 Director. Purchase and enablement of the feature provides
an increased BB_Credit buffer pool and additional port credits.
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CNT WAN support - This feature is included only in software
maintenance release 4.02.00 and is required to allow a Sphereon-
series fabric switch to communicate with Computer Network
Technologies (CNT) UltraNet Edge storage routers.
NOTE: Directors and SAN routers do not provide CNT wide area
network (WAN) support.
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Element Manager application - This feature enables director or
switch management through the Element Manager user interface.
Directors and switches are delivered with the application enabled
for a 31-day grace period. Before grace period expiration, the
application must be reactivated through a PFE key.
NOTE: The Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch does not support an Element
Manager application.
An Element Manager application is included with a SAN router. A PFE
key is not required to enable the application.
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