7
Full Fabric: Enables E_Ports and allows SAN64B-6 switches to connect to other
switches.
Virtual Fabrics: Enable a physical switch to be partitioned into independently managed
logical switches, each with its own data, control, and management paths.
Optional licenses for additional capabilities
The features listed in Table 1 are offered as options for the SAN64B-6 switch.
Table 1 Available additional capabilities
Feature
Feature code
Description
Integrated routing
7407
Enables any Fibre Channel port to be configured as an
EX_Port that supports Fibre Channel Routing (FCR),
providing improved scalability and fault isolation, along
with multi-vendor interoperability.
Enterprise Bundle
7420
The enterprise bundle includes additional features:
Extended Fabrics: Extend SAN fabrics beyond the
Fibre Channel standard of 10 kilometers (km) by
optimizing internal switch buffers to maintain
performance on ISLs that are connected at extended
distances.
ISL Trunking: Enables Fibre Channel frames to be
distributed efficiently across multiple ISLs between
two IBM b-type SAN fabric switches and directors,
while preserving in-order delivery. Both b-type SAN
devices must have trunking activated. SAN64B-6
switches add enhanced ISL Trunking support using
32 Gbps ports, and enable Fibre Channel packets to
be distributed across up to eight 32 Gbps-capable
ISLs for a combined bandwidth of up to 256 Gbps.
Fabric Vision: This license offers a collection of
breakthrough features and tools that are bundled into
an optional licensed feature. It includes Flow Vision,
IO Insight, VM Insight, and Monitoring and Alerting
Policy Suite (MAPS) advanced technologies and
capabilities. Fabric Vision requires FOS V8.01 or
later.
IBM FICON®
Enterprise Bundle
7421
The FICON Enterprise Bundle includes all of the
Enterprise Bundle functionality, and this additional feature
for FICON configurations:
FICON with Control Unit Port (CUP) activation:
Provides in-band management of the supported SAN
b-type switch and director products by system
automation for IBM z/OS®, performance data for IBM
Resource Measurement Facility™ (IBM RMF™), and
to provide unsolicited status to IBM MVS™.
