About this document, Supported hardware and software, Additional ficon resources – Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual
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About This Document
Supported hardware and software
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc. for Fabric OS v7.3.0 documenting all possible configurations and
scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.
For a complete list of platforms supported by FICON and Fabric OS v7.3.0, refer to
on page 99 Platforms supporting FICON.
In cases where procedures or parts of procedures do not apply to all Brocade hardware platforms, this
guide identifies which platforms are supported.
Additional FICON resources
In addition to Brocade product resources listed under "Brocade Resources" in this Preface, a dedicated
What’s new in this document
The following information was added or changed in this document:
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Added information on Brocade 7840 extension switch to various parts of Administering FICON
Extension Services and information on the FC16-64 blade to
101.
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on page 42 in Administering FICON Fabrics.
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Disabling and enabling ports - persistent states
on page 46 in Administering FICON
Fabrics.
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Meeting high-integrity fabric requirements
on page 33 in Administering FICON Fabrics.
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Extended fabric configurations
on page 17 in Introducing FICON.
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Added step to configure High-Integrity Fabric Mode in
on page 41.
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Added
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Added notes in various locations, such as in
on page 56, that High-Integrity Fabric mode must be configured to enable FMS
mode.
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Added definition of IPL file in
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