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Fcoe, Link aggregation, Management – Brocade VDX 8770-4 Hardware Reference Manual User Manual

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Software features

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FCoE

Pause Frames (Tx and Rx)

Priority Flow Control (PFC)

Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)

End-to-end, multi-hop FCoE (with proper licensing)

FCoE and FC zoning and RSCN suppression (name server-based zoning)

FIP version 1

FC Fabric Services for FCoE VN-port devices

Multipath support for FCoE traffic

FCoE over standard LAGs

Soft zoning support

Link aggregation

802.3ad LACP support

Virtual Link Aggregation Group (vLAG). A VLAG is a LAG that spans multiple physical switches.

QoS

802.1p marking

Scheduling: Strict priority (SP), Shaped Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (SDWRR)

CEE provisioning and classification

Rewrite/marking, queuing

Congestion control

Multicast rate limit scheduling

Port-based SPAN

Layer 2 and Layer 3 ACLs (ingress and egress)

Port-based sFLOW

Management

IPv4 or IPv6 management

CLI management utilities

sFlow

TRILL Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM)

Distributed configuration management (DCMd)

Licensing

FCoE licensing: enables FCoE feature set

Layer 3 licensing: enables IPv4 protocols, such as OSPF, VRRP, and VRRP-E