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Access Gateway limitations on the Brocade 8000

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When the Brocade 8000 runs in Access Gateway mode, all the FCoE ports are F-Ports and all
the FC port are N-Ports.

When Access Gateway is enabled, F Ports mapping to N Ports is allowed and all 4 FCOE ports
in the trunk group are mapped to the same N Port.

F Ports mapping to the Port Group level is not allowed.

You cannot map individual FCoE Ports within the same trunk group to different FC ports.

All the four FCoE ports in a set will failover or failback to one FC N Port.

Enabling or disabling of N-port Port Grouping is not allowed

Port Group modification is allowed

Login Balancing and Fabric Name Monitoring is not allowed in Add Port Group configuration.

Login Balancing, Fabric Name Monitoring, F Port Auto Rebalancing, N Port Auto Rebalancing,
and Manual Balance options are not allowed in the Edit Port Group or View Port Group
configuration.