McDATA 3000 Fibre Channel Card Dependencies, FC/SCSI Eport, Reconfigure UCM and reboot the unit

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Fibre Channel Card Dependencies

Fibre Channel Card Dependencies

The UltraNet Edge 3000 supports two types of Fibre Channel cards; FCBB or FCXL2. The FCBB card is standard, the FCXL2 card is used only for FC/SCSI Tape Pipelining (Device Extension) implementations.

Table 2-7 shows the supported configurations that can be run with each card.

			Table 2-7	Fibre Channel Card Dependencies
			UltraNet Edge 3000		Supported
			Series FC Card		Configurations	Fibre Channel Switch Requirements
			FCBB Card		FC/SCSI E_port	Two Fibre Channel Switch required
			(1 Gigabit or 2 Gigabit)		extension
					FC/SCSI F_port Fibre	Fibre Channel Switch not required (one
					Channel	or more may be present)
					FICON ISL extension	Two FICON switches required
					FICON extension	Fibre Channel Switch not required (one
						may be present)
			FCXL2 Card		N or NL_port	Fibre Channel Switch optional
			(1 Gigabit)		(FC/SCSI Tape
					Pipelining)
		The Fibre Channel port type can be configured in UltraNet
		ConfigManager. Only one Fibre Channel port type is supported in an
		individual unit. For example, E_port cannot operate simultaneously
		with F_port in the same Edge unit. The port types must also match
		from peer to peer. To reconfigure the port type configuration,
		reconfigure UCM and reboot the unit.
	FC/SCSI E_port	An E_port is an expansion port used to link multiple Fibre Channel
	Configurations	switches together into a single fabric.
		The UltraNet Edge 3000 offers the standard E_port configuration and
		E_port Disk Streaming which moves data more efficiently in high
		latency networks than our standard E_port solution. E_port Disk
		Streaming functions as a subset of our Fibre Channel Device
		Extension technology. A significant performance gain is normally
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