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•Chapter 11, “Administering Advanced Zoning,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade
Advanced Zoning feature.
•Chapter 12, “Traffic Isolation Zoning,” provides concepts and procedures for use of Traffic
Isolation Zones within a fabric.
•Chapter 13, “Administering NPIV,” provides procedures for enabling and configuring N-Port ID
Virtualization (NPIV).
•Chapter 14, “Interoperability for Merged SANs,” provides information about using Brocade
switches with other brands of switches.
•Chapter 15, “Managing Administrative Domains,” describes the concepts and provides
procedures for using administrative domains.
The second section, “Licensed Features,” contains the following topics:
•Chapter 16, “Administering Licensing,” provides information about Brocade licenses and their
implementation on switches and enterprise-class directors.
•Chapter 17, “Monitoring Fabric Performance,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade
Advanced Performance Monitoring licensed feature.
•Chapter 18, “Optimizing Fabric Behavior,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade Adaptive
Networking suite of tools, including Traffic Isolation, QoS Ingress Rate Limiting, and QoS
SID/DID Traffic Prioritization.
•Chapter 19, “Managing Trunking Connections,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade ISL
Trunking licensed feature.
•Chapter 20, “Managing Long Distance Fabrics,” provides procedures for use of the Brocade
Extended Fabrics licensed feature.
•Chapter 21, “Using the FC-FC Routing Service,” provides information for setting up and using
the FC-FC Routing Service.
•The appendices provide special procedures or information for Fabric OS.

Supported hardware and software

In those instances in which procedures or parts of procedures documented here apply to some
switches but not to others, this guide identifies exactly which switches are supported and which are
not.
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for Fabric OS v6.4.0, documenting all possible
configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.
The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of Fabric OS:
•Brocade 300 switch
•Brocade 4100 switch
•Brocade 4900 switch
•Brocade 5000 switch
•Brocade 5100 switch
•Brocade 5300 switch
•Brocade 5410 embedded switch