Fabric Best Practices
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes preferred practices for deploying and using advanced Brocade Fabric Operating System (FOS) features to identify, monitor, and protect Fibre Channel (FC) SANs from problematic devices and media behavior.
 
FOS: This paper focuses on the FOS command options and features that are available in versions 7.4.2 and 8.1.
Introduction
Faulty or improperly configured devices, misbehaving hosts, and faulty or substandard FC media can significantly impact the performance of FC fabrics and the applications that they support. In most real-world scenarios, these issues cannot be corrected or completely mitigated within the fabric itself. Rather, the behavior must be addressed directly.

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