Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 67)

Administering FICON Extension Services
● Platforms supporting FICON extension over IP.............................................................. 65
● FICON emulation overview............................................................................................. 65
● FCIP configuration requirements for FICON extension...................................................70
● Configuration requirements for switches and backbones............................................... 70
● Configuring FICON emulation......................................................................................... 72
● Modifying FICON emulation............................................................................................ 73
● Displaying FICON emulation performance statistics.......................................................73
Platforms supporting FICON extension over IP
FICON extension over IP is supported between Brocade 7800 Extension Switches and FX8-24 blades.
FICON on Brocade 7840 Extension Switches, but these switches can only connect to Brocade 7840
switches.
• The Brocade 7800 switch has 16 Fibre Channel ports and six physical GbE ports.
• The FX8-24 blade has 12 Fibre Channel ports, ten 1 GbE ports, and two 10 GbE ports.
• The Brocade 7840 switch has 24 physical Fibre Channel ports, two 40 GbE ports, and 16 1/10 GbE
ports.
FICON emulation overview
FICON emulation supports FICON traffic over IP WANs using FCIP as the underlying protocol. FICON
emulation can be extended to support performance enhancements for specific applications through use
of the following licensed features:
• IBM z/OS Global Mirror emulation (formerly eXtended Remote Copy or XRC)
• FICON tape emulation (tape read and write pipelining)
Brocade extension products use the following licenses:
• Advanced FICON Acceleration (FTR_AFA)
Allows interoperability for the following features and products:
‐ Prizm FICON to ESCON converter and ESBT Bus/Tag Interface Module for Prizm from
Optica Technologies, Inc. These products allow emulation and extended distance support
for bus and tag tapes and printers, such as 3203, 3211, 3800, 3900, 4248, and intelligent
printer data stream (IPDS) models.
‐ Write and read tape pipelining
‐ Teradata emulation
‐ IBM z/OS Global Mirror emulation
This license contains the following options:
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