Fcip Enhancements; Scalability Enhancements; Fabric Services Enhancements - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 300 Release Notes

Sorting Security Policy Member List
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In a strict fabric wide consistency policy, if the security policy members are not in the same order, a
newly joined switch will be segmented. To avoid segmentation of ports due to member list order
mismatch, the security policy members are sorted by default. Newly added members to existing
policies will also be sorted.

FCIP Enhancements

FOS v7.1 implements the following FCIP features and enhancements:
Virtual Fabrics (VF) support on the Brocade 7800
FOS v7.1 adds Virtual Fabrics (VF) support on the 7800 platform with support for up to four logical switches.
However, the 7800 VF configuration does not support Base Switch functionality or XISL usage.
Enable IP Security on XGE0 of an FX8-24 blade
FOS v7.1 adds IPsec support for the XGE0 port of an FX8-24 blade. This enables creation of IP Security
enabled FCIP tunnels on VE ports 12-21 of an FX8-24 blade. Please note that this functionality requires the
new FX8-24 hardware SKU that supports this functionality.
FCIP Tunnel TCP Statistics Monitoring Enhancements
In FOS v7.1 two new sub-options (reset and lifetime) have been added to the "portshow fciptunnel" and
"portshow fcipcircuit" commands. The "--reset" option allows the user to start a new statistical checkpoint for
the tunnel, circuits and the TCP connections while the "--lifetime" option allows the user to see statistics
related to the lifetime of the tunnel, circuits and TCP connections.
These enhancements allow users to see statistics that represent a specific time period for tunnel(s), circuit(s)
and TCP connections.
FCIP Enforcement of ED_TOV (Error Detection Time Out Value) for FC frames
Starting with FOS v7.1, FCIP will enforce an internal queue time limit (of 2 seconds) for all FCIP received FC
frames to address issues in congested networks. This ensures that no old FC sequences will be forwarded to
the destination if the age (queue time) of the FC frame on an FCIP FC send queue exceeds 2 seconds.
CLI to Display GE Port Errors
FOS v7.1 implements a new command gePortErrShow that shows GE ports and their statistics.
FCIP RASlog Enhancements
FOS v7.1 implements the following FCIP RASlog enhancements:
 Improved FCIP RASlog messages in a Virtual Fabrics environment
 FCIP RASlogs to be logged against the correct Logical Switch or chassis
 Minimize the creation of FICON Emulation RASlog messages (applies to the FICN-XXXX RASlog
messages)

Scalability Enhancements

 Support for up to 2MB zone database in a fabric with only DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510 systems (the
presence of any other platform in the fabric will limit the maximum zone database to 1MB for the
entire fabric).

Fabric Services Enhancements

FOS v7.1 implements various fabric services enhancements in the following areas:
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Zoning enhancements
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