Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Frame Redirection

FIGURE 6 Single Host and Target

Figure 6 demonstrates the flow of frame redirection traffic. A frame starts at the host with a

destination to the target. The port where the appliance is attached to the host switch acts as the

virtual initiator and the port where the appliance is attached to the target switch is the virtual

target.

Creating a frame redirect zone

The first time this command is run the following zone objects are created by default:

• The base zone object, "red_______base".

• The RD zone configuration, "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg".

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.

2. Enter the zone

–-rdcreate command.

3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the frame redirect zones to the defined configuration.

Example of creating a frame redirect zone.

The following example creates an RD Zone, given a host (10:10:10:10:10:10:10:10), target

(20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20), VI (30:30:30:30:30:30:30:30), and VT (40:40:40:40:40:40:40:40):

switch:admin>zone --rdcreate 10:10:10:10:10:10:10:10 20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20 \

30:30:30:30:30:30:30:30 40:40:40:40:40:40:40:40 restartable noFCR

Deleting a frame redirect zone

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.

2. Enter the zone

--rdDelete command with the name of the zone.

3. Enter the cfgDelete to remove RD zone configuration "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg".

4. Enter the zone

--cfgSave command to save changes to the defined configuration.

Example of deleting a frame redirect zone.

switch:admin> zone --rddelete \

red_0917_10_10_10_10_10_10_10_10_20_20_20_20_20_20_20_20

Viewing redirect zones

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.

2. Enter the cfgShow command.