Dell POWEREDGE M1000E - Manual (Page 6)

Fabric OS v7.1.0a Release Notes v1.0 Page 6 of 41
Summary of New Software Features
In addition to new hardware support, FOS v7.1 also includes support for several software features and
enhancements:
 Diagnostic Port (D_Port) enhancements
 D_Port on optical ICLs of the DCX 8510 platforms
 New D_Port test options – users can specify number of frames, frame size, test
duration, etc.
 Full D_Port support between Brocade 16G Adapter and 16G FC switch (requires
Brocade adapter driver version 3.2 or later)
 D_Port between Access Gateway (enabled on 16G FC platform) and 16G FC switch
 In-flight encryption and compression enhancements
 FEC (Forward Error Correction) support enhancements
 Performance optimization enhancements on FC long distance ISLs
 FOS security enhancements
 Addition of TACACS+ support
 Support for Open LDAP
 FCIP platform enhancements
 Virtual Fabrics support on the Brocade 7800 platform
 IPsec support on VE ports 22-31 of FX8-24 (supported only on new FX8-24 SKUs)
 Various FCIP RAS enhancements
 Scalability Enhancement: Support for up to 2MB zone database in a fabric with only
DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510 systems (the presence of any other platform will limit the maximum
zone database to 1MB)
 Fabric Services enhancements
 Zoning enhancements
 Name Server enhancements
 FDMI (Fabric Device Management Interface) enhancements
 FCR enhancements
 Access Gateway enhancements
 Various RAS (Reliability Availability Serviceability) enhancements
 Encryption platform (BES/FS8-18) enhancements
 Miscellaneous enhancements