Brocade Communications Systems IP250 VCS product groups, Port profiles, Static product group

14 VCS product groups

VCS product groups

The standalone Network OS switches and the VCS fabric are treated as a single Layer 2 (L2) switch for both static and dynamic product groups. The product group membership cannot contain fabric members. The standalone Network OS VDX switches are shown in Table 43.

TABLE 43	Network OS-supported hardware
Device name		Firmware level required
Network OS VDX 2730 10 Gbps connection blade		v2.1.1_fuj
Network OS VDX 2740 switch		nos4.0.0_bbd
Network OS VDX 6710 switch		2.1 or later
Network OS VDX 6720-24 switch		2.1 or later
Network OS VDX 6720-60 switch		2.1 or later
Network OS VDX 6730-32 switch		2.1 or later
Network OS VDX 6730-76 switch		2.1 or later
Network OS VDX 8770-4 switch		3.0 or later
Network OS VDX 8770-8 switch		3.0 or later
Network OS VDX 6740 switch		4.0 or later
Network OS VDX 6740T switch		4.0 or later

Static product group

The standalone VDX switch and the VCS fabric can be added as a static product group member. The fabric members, however, are not included in the available product panel.

Dynamic product group

The standalone VDX switch and the VCS fabric are included when the dynamic product group is defined. The criteria search and filter the fabrics based on user-defined search criteria. The search criteria do not consider fabric members.

Port profiles

A port profile is a collection of network policies supported by the switch. By configuring port profiles on the Network OS VDX switch (refer to Table 43 for a list of supported VDX switches), the virtual machine (VM) that is configured on the virtual network interface card (vNIC) can migrate to any other port on that switch, but still retain the same network policies.

The default port profile, shown in Figure 160, contains the entire configuration needed for a VM to obtain access to the LAN and SAN.

NOTE

FCoE sub-profiles can be applied on default port profiles only and are supported on Network OS version 2.1 and later. You can view the FCoE profile association on Network Advisor version 11.3.0 and later.

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