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FCIP platforms and supported features
The following Fabric OS platforms that support FCIP:
•
The 8 Gbps Extension Switch.
•
The 8 Gbps Extension blade (8-slot Backbone Chassis, 4-slot Backbone Chassis).
NOTE
The 8 Gbps Extension blade is supported in 16 Gbps Backbone and Director Chassis,
IPv6 addressing is not supported in conjunction with IPsec on all platforms in Fabric OS version
v7.0, but will be supported in a later version.
Table 115
summarizes FCIP capabilities per platform.
TABLE 115
FCIP capabilities
Capabilities
8 Gbps Extension
Switch
8 Gbps Extension
blade
FCIP trunking
Yes
Yes
Adaptive Rate Limiting
Yes
Yes
10 GbE ports
No
Yes
FC ports up to 8 Gbps
Yes
Yes
Compression
Yes
Yes
Open Systems Tape
Pipelining (OSTP)
• FCIP Fastwrite
• Tape Acceleration
Yes
Yes
FICON extension
Yes
Yes
IPSec for tunnel traffic
Yes
Yes
Diffserv priorities
Yes
Yes
VLAN tagging
Yes
Yes
VEX_Ports
Yes
Yes
Support for third party WAN
optimization hardware
No
1
1.
Support is planned for a later release.
No
1
IPv6 addresses for FCIP
tunnels
2
2.
IPv6 addressing is not supported in conjunction with IPsec in Fabric
OS version v7.0, but will be supported in a later version.
Yes
Yes
Support for jumbo frames
No
1
MTU of 1500 is
maximum
No
1
MTU of 1500 is
maximum