Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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Restrictions of FA-PWWN

Note the following restrictions when using the FA-PWWN feature:

• FA-PWWN is supported only on Brocade HBAs.

• FA-PWWN is not supported for the following:

- FCoE devices

- FL_Ports

- Swapped ports (using the portswap feature)

- Cascaded Access Gateway topologies

- FICON/FMS mode

NOTE

FA-WWN is supported with F_Port trunking on the supported Access Gateway platforms.

Access Gateway N_Port failover with FA-PWWN

If an FA-PWWN F_Port on an Access Gateway fails over to an N_Port that is connected to a different

switch, the FA-PWWN of that Access Gateway F_Port must also be configured on that switch. If not,

the FA-PWWN assigned to the AG F_Port following a failover will be different than it was before the

failover occurred. This situation might require the host to reboot to bring it back online. Even after

the reboot, the host might potentially go into a different zone since the FA-PWWN is different.