Fabric OS

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In storage area networking, Fabric OS is a firmware for Brocade's Fibre Channel switches and directors.

Contents 1 First generation 2 Second generation 3 Additional licensed products 4 Versions 5 References

[edit] First generation

The first generation of Fabric OS was developed on top of a VxWorks kernel and was mainly used in the Brocade Silkworm 2000 and first 3000 series. Even today, many production environments are still running the older generation Silkworm models.

[edit] Second generation

The second generation of Fabric OS was developed on a PowerPC platform, and uses MontaVista Linux, a Linux derivative with real-time performance enhancements. With the advent of MontaVista, switches and directors have the ability of hot firmware activation (without downtime for Fibre Channel fabric), and many useful diagnostic commands.

[edit] Additional licensed products

Additional products for Fabric OS are offered by Brocade for one-time fee. They are licensed for use in a single specific switch (license key is coupled with device's serial number). Those include:

• Secure Fabric OS (SFOS)
• Brocade Advanced Zoning
• ISL trunking
• Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Fabric Watch

[edit] Versions

• Fabric OS 6.0.0
• Fabric OS 5.5.0
• Fabric OS 4.4.0[b]
• Fabric OS 4.1
  • SSH support
  • Multiple user access
• Fabric OS 3.2.0
• Fabric OS 3.1
• Fabric OS 2.6.2[a]
• Fabric OS 2.6.1

[edit] References