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Chapter 24
Configuring FICON
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .
Cisco MDS-Supported FICON Features
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family FICON features include:
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Flexibility and investment protection—The Cisco MDS 9000 Family shares common switching and
service modules across the Cisco MDS 9500 Series and the 9200 Series.
Refer to the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide and the Cisco MDS 9200 Series
Hardware Installation Guide).
High-availability FICON-enabled director—The Cisco MDS 9500 Series combines nondisruptive
software upgrades, stateful process restart and failover, and full redundancy of all major components
for a new standard in director-class availability. It supports up to 224 autosensing, 2/1-Gbps, FICON
or Fibre Channel FCP ports in any combination in a single chassis and up to 768 Fibre Channel ports
in a single rack. The 1.44 Tbps of internal system bandwidth ensures smooth integration of future
10-Gbps modules. See
Chapter 8, "Configuring High Availability."
Infrastructure protection—Common software releases infrastructure protection is available across
all Cisco MDS 9000 platforms. See
VSAN technology—The Cisco MDS 9000 Family introduces VSAN technology for
hardware-enforced, isolated environments within a single physical fabric for secure sharing of
physical infrastructure and enhanced FICON intermix support. See
Managing VSANs."
Port-level configurations—BB_credits, beacon mode, and port security for each port. See the
"Buffer-to-Buffer Credits" section on page
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11-18, and
Chapter 12, "Configuring Trunking."
Alias name configuration—instead of the WWN, for switches and attached node devices. See
Chapter 19, "Configuring and Managing Zones."
Comprehensive security framework—The Cisco MDS 9000 Family supports RADIUS
authentication, Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3), role-based access
control, Secure Shell Protocol (SSH), Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), VSANs,
hardware-enforced zoning, ACLs, fabric binding, Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), LUN
zoning, read-only zones, and VSAN-based access control. See
and TACACS+"
and
Chapter 31, "Configuring FC-SP and DHCHAP."
Traffic encryption—IPSec is supported over FCIP. You can encrypt FICON and Fibre Channel
traffic that is carried over FCIP. See
View the local accounting log to locate FICON events. See the
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Unified storage management—Cisco MDS 9000 FICON-enabled switches are fully IBM CUP
standard compliant for in-band management using the IBM S/A OS/390 I/O operations console. See
the
"CUP In-Band Management" section on page
Port address-based configurations—port name, blocked or unblocked state, and the prohibit
connectivity attributes. See the
Display the following information:
Individual Fibre Channel ports, such as the port name, port number, Fibre Channel address,
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operational state, type of port, and login data.
Nodes attached to ports.
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Port performance and statistics.
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See the
"Displaying FICON Information"
Chapter 6, "Software Images."
11-12,
"Identifying the Beacon LEDs" section on
Chapter 30, "Configuring IPsec Network Security."
24-27.
"Configuring FICON Ports" section on page
section in this chapter.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
MDS-Specific FICON Advantages
Chapter 16, "Configuring and
Chapter 28, "Configuring RADIUS
"Local AAA Services" section on
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