Fcoe features – Dell Brocade Adapters User Manual

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Adapter features

FCoE features

CNAs and Fabric Adapter ports configured in CNA mode support the following Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) features:

Brocade CNAs support the following features:

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500,000 IOPS per port for maximum IO transfer rates.

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10 Gbps throughput per port full duplex

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Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), providing device authentication through key
management.

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Boot over SAN. This feature provides the ability to boot the host operating system from a boot
device located somewhere on the SAN instead of the host’s local disk or direct attached Fibre
Channel storage. Specifically, this “boot device” is a logical unit number (LUN) located on a
storage device. Booting from a direct-attached device is also supported.

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Fabric-based boot LUN discovery, a feature that allows the host to obtain boot LUN information
from the fabric zone database.

NOTE

This feature is not available for direct-attached targets.

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Persistent binding. This enables you to permanently assign a system SCSI target ID to a
specific Fibre Channel device.

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Fibre Channel-Security Protocol (FC-SP) providing device authentication through key
management.

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FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) support for the following:

FIP 2.0

preFIP and FIP 1.03

FIP Discovery protocol for dynamic FCF discovery and FCoE link management

FPMA type FIP fabric login

VLAN discovery for untagged and priority tagged FIP frames

FIP discovery solicitation and FCP discovery

FIP link down handling.

FIP version compatibility

FIP keep alive

FIP clear virtual links

NOTE

The CNA FIP logic automatically adapts to the adequate FIP version and preFIP to enable
backward compatibility.