Access Gateway Limitations On The Brocade 8000 - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000

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Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000

The following list the is a compilation of the limitations of using Access Gateway with the Brocade
8000 switch:
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Click Manual Balancing and a confirmation dialog box displays. Click Yes to change F
Port-N Port Mapping or click No to cancel the changes.
Click Apply to apply the changes.
Only the Port Grouping (PG) policy is supported. When the Access Gateway mode is first
enabled, the default PG policy is enforced.
When the Brocade 8000 runs in Access Gateway mode, all the FCoE ports are F_Ports and all
the FC port are N-Ports.
Static mapping is not supported on the Brocade 8000.
When Access Gateway is enabled, F Ports mapping to N Ports is allowed and all 4 FCOE ports
in the trunk group are mapped to the same N Port.
F Ports mapping to the Port Group level is not allowed.
You cannot map individual FCoE Ports within the same trunk group to different FC ports.
All the four FCoE ports in a set will failover or failback to one FC N Port.
Enabling or disabling of N-port Port Grouping is not allowed
Port Group modification is allowed
Login Balancing and Fabric Name Monitoring is not allowed in Add Port Group configuration.
Login Balancing, Fabric Name Monitoring, F Port Auto Rebalancing, N Port Auto Rebalancing,
and Manual Balance options are not allowed in the Edit Port Group or View Port Group
configuration.
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