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About FICON

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About FICON
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family supports the Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), FICON, iSCSI, and FCIP
capabilities within a single, high availability platform. This solution simplifies purchasing, reduces
deployment and management costs, and reduces the complex evolution to shared mainframe and open
systems storage networks (see
Figure 24-1 Shared System Storage Network
Mainframe
systems
Open
systems
FCP and FICON are different FC4 protocols and their traffic are independent of each other. If required,
devices using these protocols can be isolated using VSANs.

FICON Requirements

The FICON feature has the following requirements:
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•
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
24-2
FICON features can be implemented in the following switches:
Any switch in the Cisco MDS 9500 Series.
–
– Any switch in the Cisco MDS 9200 Series.
The FICON feature is not supported on Cisco MDS 9120 and 9140 switches or the 32-port
Note
Fibre Channel switching module.
You need the MAINFRAME_PKG license to configure FICON parameters (see
"Obtaining and Installing
Figure 24-1).
FICON VSAN
Open systems VSANs
Licenses").
Chapter 24 Configuring FICON
Control
unit
Open
storage
Chapter 3,
OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x