Chapter 36 Configuring Ficon; Ficon Requirements - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

About 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
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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 36-1
Mainframe
systems
systems
FCP and FICON are different FC4 protocols and their traffic is independent of each other. Devices using
these protocols should be isolated using VSANs.
This section includes the following topics:
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FICON Requirements

The FICON feature has the following requirements:
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
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The 32-port Fibre Channel switching module
Cisco Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem
Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeSystem
Shared System Storage Network
Open
FICON Requirements, page 36-2
MDS-Specific FICON Advantages, page 36-3
FICON Cascading, page 36-7
FICON VSAN Prerequisites, page 36-7
You can implement FICON features in the following switches:
– Any switch in the Cisco MDS 9500 Series.
– Any switch in the Cisco MDS 9200 Series (including the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice
Modular Switch).
Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch.
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– MDS 9000 Family 18/4-Port Multiservice Module.
Figure 36-1).
FICON VSAN
Open systems VSANs
Chapter 36 Configuring FICON
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OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x