You are correct. Zoning will be provided by the switch in full fabric mode. If Cisco MDS is NPV or you make Brocade into access gateway then zoning is coming from the switch in full fabric mode. As to which is better, it all depends on your organ...
A good place to start is with the latest Cisco's MDS interoperability guide:https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/intmatrx/Matrix5.htmlIf by chance you have the Brocade switch in fabric mode (vs acc...
The Brocade 7800's FCIP output is simply an IP packet with fibre channel frame encapsulated. If your question is what type of network equipment can attached to the Brocade 7800 when using FCIP then my experience is customers typically have IP networ...
Alex,I fail to see the issue in the info you provided. The transceiver details shows a 16Gb SFP is plugged into fc2/15 with details stating an OM3 cable provides up to 100m distance.The Cisco specs you provide shows 14.025Gbs baud rate (which is gen...
In my experience the most likely cause of the TCP_RETRANS_RATE_XCD_THRESH is due to the IP network having trouble delivering packets to the distant end. If the packet's ACK does not return within a given time (or arrives too far out of order) the Tr...
