CONFIGURATION GUIDE Brocade Fabric OS FICON Configuration Guide, 8.1.0 Supporting Fabric OS 8.1.0 53-1004394-02 23 July 2018 Copyright © 2018 Brocade Communications Systems LLC. All Rights Reserved. Brocade and the stylized B logo are among the trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems LLC. Broadcom, the pulse logo, and Connecting everything are among the trademarks of Broadcom. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Brocade, a Broadcom Inc. Company, reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products or data herein to improve reliability, function, or design. Information furnished by Brocade is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, Brocade does not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of this information, nor the application or use of any product or circuit described herein, neither does it convey any license under its patent rights nor the rights of others. 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Brocade Fabric OS FICON Configuration Guide, 8.1.0 2 53-1004394-02 Contents Preface...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Document Conventions...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Text Formatting Conventions.......................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Command Syntax Conventions..................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Brocade Resources................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Contacting Brocade Technical Support............................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Brocade customers..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Brocade OEM customers............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 About This Document..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Supported hardware and software................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Additional FICON resources.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 What's new in this document............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Changes made for the initial release (53-1004394-01)............................................................................................................................................11 Changes made for 53-1004394-02................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Introducing FICON...........................................................................................................................................................................................................13 FICON overview......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 Fabric OS support for FICON..................................................................................................................................................................................................13 Latency guideline...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................14 FICON concepts......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................14 FICON configurations...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Switched point-to-point..............................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Cascaded FICON.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Access control in FICON..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Cascaded zoning........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Error reporting.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................29 Secure access control.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29 FICON commands.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................30 Link and FC addressing....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Domain ID.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33 Port area............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 33 ALPA...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................33 Administering FICON Fabrics........................................................................................................................................................................................35 User security considerations.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 35 Meeting high-integrity fabric requirements..................................................................................................................................................................................35