Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.1 (53-1002446-01, March 2012)

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Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
TI within an edge fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
TI within a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278
Limitations of TI zones over FC routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279
General rules for TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279
Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . . . . . .280
Additional configuration rules for enhanced TI zones . . . . . . .281
Trunking with TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281
Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . . . . .281
Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning . . . . . .282
Virtual Fabric considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning. . . . . . . .282
Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics . . . . .284
Creating a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .285
Creating a TI zone in a base fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287
Modifying TI zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288
Changing the state of a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
Deleting a TI zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290
Displaying TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290
Troubleshooting TI zone routing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
Setting up TI over FCR (sample procedure). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292
Chapter 13 Bottleneck Detection
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Bottleneck detection overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Types of bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298
How bottlenecks are reported. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298
Using alerting parameters to determine whether alerts are
generated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299
Supported configurations for bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . . . .300
Limitations of bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
High availability considerations for bottleneck detection . . . .300
Upgrade and downgrade considerations for bottleneck
detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
Trunking considerations for bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . .301
Virtual Fabrics considerations for bottleneck detection . . . . .301
Access Gateway considerations for bottleneck detection. . . .301
Advanced bottleneck detection settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301
Enabling bottleneck detection on a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302
Excluding a port from bottleneck detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Displaying bottleneck detection configuration details . . . . . . . . . .304
Changing bottleneck parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
Displaying bottleneck statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307