.SAN design reference guide Vol. 1-5 785350-001

Figure 75 (page 189) shows a SAN configuration (two cascaded switches) with VIO Fibre Channel
PIC redundancy.
Figure 75 SAN VIO configuration (two cascaded switches) with logical and physical redundancy
for XP storage systems (NS1000, NS14000)
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