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

Migrating a cascaded fabric SAN...................................................................................41
Migrating a meshed fabric SAN.....................................................................................42
Migrating a ring fabric SAN...........................................................................................42
3 Fibre Channel routing............................................................................43
Fibre Channel routing overview............................................................................................43
Fabric, Virtual Fabric, and VSAN independence...............................................................44
Fabric services..............................................................................................................44
Worldwide Name.........................................................................................................44
Import and export.........................................................................................................44
Routing table................................................................................................................44
SAN scaling and routing....................................................................................................45
Switch scaling...............................................................................................................45
Scaling by routing.........................................................................................................46
Fibre Channel routing implementations.................................................................................46
Fibre Channel routing techniques....................................................................................46
B-series fabric groups.....................................................................................................48
B-series fabric partitioning using Virtual Fabrics.................................................................48
B-series Virtual Fabrics architecture..................................................................................48
C-series fabric partitioning..............................................................................................48
H-series switch fabric routing...........................................................................................48
B-series, C-series, and H-series routing differences..............................................................49
Fabric redundancy and routing............................................................................................51
Supported routing configurations.........................................................................................52
Routing and core-edge fabrics........................................................................................52
Routing through an IP network........................................................................................54
High-availability router configurations..............................................................................55
400 MP Router and MP Router Blade use cases................................................................57
H-series switches with TR configurations............................................................................57
Routing use cases..........................................................................................................58
4 Fibre Channel over Ethernet...................................................................62
HP FCoE solutions overview.................................................................................................62
HP FCoE converged switch technology..................................................................................63
Converged network switch ports......................................................................................63
CN Switch Interoperability.........................................................................................64
HP FCoE products..............................................................................................................64
Converged network switches and blades..........................................................................65
HP FlexFabric 5900CP Switch....................................................................................65
HP 5820 Ethernet/FCoE Switch..................................................................................65
HP 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch ................................................................66
HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade......................................67
HP C-series Nexus 5010/5020 Converged Network Switches........................................67
Cisco Nexus 5548UP/5596UP Converged Network Switches........................................68
Cisco Fabric Extender for HP BladeSystem...................................................................69
Converged network adapters .........................................................................................70
HP CN1000E and CN1100E.....................................................................................70
HP StoreFabric CN1100R..........................................................................................71
HP CN1000Q.........................................................................................................71
FCoE storage systems....................................................................................................71
3PAR StoreServ 10400/10800/7200/7400/7450 with 10GbE FCoE host ports..............72
P9500 with the FCoE 10-GbE channel adapter (4 ports per adapter)..............................72
P63xx/P65xx with FCoE/iSCSI 10-GbE front end host ports (2 ports per controller)..........73
FCoE configuration rules.....................................................................................................77
Server support..............................................................................................................82
HP FlexFabric 5900CP Switch.........................................................................................82
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