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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-6965-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
APPENDIX
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Managing Cisco FabricWare
The Cisco FabricWare software running on the MDS 9020 switch offers Fibre Channel switching
services that realize maximum performance. Cisco FabricWare provides networking features such as
zoning, advanced security, non-disruptive software upgrades, diagnostics, a CLI with Cisco IOS like syntax,
and standard interfaces for management applications.
This appendix contains the following sections:
•Fibre Channel Support, page C-1
•Zone Configuration, page C-1
•Security, page C-2
•Events, page C-2
Fibre Channel Support
Cisco FabricWare supports autoconfigured Fibre Channel ports capable of up to 4-Gbps bandwidth.
Cisco FabricWare supports the following port types:
•E
•F
•FL
•Fx
•Auto
See the “About Interface Modes” section on page 18-1.
Cisco FabricWare supports Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) as the standard path selection protocol used
by Fibre Channel fabrics. The FSPF feature is enabled by default on all Fibre Channel switches. Except
in configurations that require special consideration, you do not need to configure any FSPF services.
FSPF automatically calculates the best path between any two switches in a fabric.
Zone Configuration
Zoning enables you to set up access control between storage devices or user groups. If you have
administrator privileges in your fabric, you can create zones to increase network security and to prevent
data loss or corruption. Zoning is enforced by examining the source-destination ID field. Cisco
FabricWare does not support QoS, broadcast, LUN, or read-only zones.