McDATA Sphereon 4300 Specifications download pdf (Page 243)

Physical Planning Considerations

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Physical Planning Considerations

Remote Fabric

Intrepid 10000 Director LIMs contain two scalable packet processors,

each supporting an optical paddle pair. Each paddle pair provides 16

ports (1.0625 or 2.12500 Gbps operation), four ports (10.2000 Gbps

operation), or ten ports (mixed data rate operation). A minimal

BB_Credit buffer pool is allocated among all paddle-pair ports that

allows a 1.0625 or 2.12500 Gbps port to be set to 60 BB_Credits and a

10.2000 Gbps port to be set to 360 BB_Credits.

With the remote fabric feature installed and enabled, the buffer pool

is increased and each paddle pair is allocated a maximum of 1,373

BB_Credits. Feature enablement allows a long-link 1.0625 or 2.12500

Gbps port to be set to 1133 BB_Credits and a long-link 10.2000 Gbps

port to be set to 1085 BB_Credits. This feature is provided only for the

Intrepid 10000 Director.

N_Port ID

Virtualization

NPIV is a feature that allows a single physical port to support up to

256 virtual Fibre Channel addresses. A virtual node port (NV_Port)

retains full N_Port capabilities and can register for full fabric services.

However, simultaneous loop device operation (NL_Port) and NPIV

operation (NV_Port) is not allowed on the same physical port. This

feature is beneficial in mainframe environments where multiple

partitions share the same physical channel and port connection.

Element Manager

Application

The Element Manager feature allows director or fabric switch

management through an Element Manager application GUI. A

director or switch is delivered with the application enabled for a

31-day grace period. Before grace period expiration, the application

must be reactivated and enabled through a PFE key.

During the grace period, a No Feature Key dialog box appears when

the Element Manager application is accessed. Click OK to close the

dialog box and open the application.

In addition, the message Element Manager license key has not been

installed - Please follow up instructions to update permanent key

appears splashed across views, indicating the Element Manager PFE

key must be installed.

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