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

WDM system characteristics.....................................................................................262
HP coarse wave division multiplexing........................................................................263
Third-party WDM products......................................................................................263
Extended fabric settings for Fibre Channel switches..........................................................264
B-series switch settings.............................................................................................264
B-series trunking and WDM.....................................................................................265
C-series switch settings............................................................................................265
H-series switch settings............................................................................................266
Multi-protocol long-distance technology...............................................................................266
Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol...............................................................................266
FCIP mechanisms...................................................................................................266
FCIP link configurations...........................................................................................266
FCIP single-link configuration...............................................................................266
FCIP dual-link configuration.................................................................................267
FCIP shared-link configuration.............................................................................267
FCIP network considerations....................................................................................267
FCIP bandwidth considerations.................................................................................268
Recommendations for managing bandwidth with FCIP............................................268
FCIP gateways.......................................................................................................269
Third-party QoS and data encryption FCIP products....................................................270
FCIP QoS products............................................................................................270
WAN accelerator products...........................................................................................270
Fibre Channel over SONET..........................................................................................270
FC-SONET IP link configurations...............................................................................271
FC-SONET dual-link configuration........................................................................271
FC-SONET shared-link configuration.....................................................................271
FC-SONET network considerations............................................................................271
Third-party SONET gateways...................................................................................271
Fibre Channel over ATM..............................................................................................272
HP multi-protocol long-distance products.............................................................................272
HP SAN extension products summary and usage.............................................................272
HP IP Distance Gateway (mpx110).................................................................................273
IP Distance Gateway configuration examples.............................................................274
Configuration rules.................................................................................................281
General configuration rules.................................................................................281
Operating system and multipath support...............................................................282
EVA storage system rules.....................................................................................282
XP storage system rules.......................................................................................282
XP storage system software.................................................................................282
Fibre Channel switch and firmware support...........................................................282
MPX200 Multifunction Router with FCIP..........................................................................282
MPX200 Multifunction Router FCIP configuration examples..........................................283
FCIP Configuration rules..........................................................................................286
General FCIP configuration rules..........................................................................286
Operating system and multipath support...............................................................286
Storage system rules...........................................................................................286
B-series 1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blade......................287
1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blade features and
requirements..........................................................................................................287
1606 Extension SAN Switch configuration examples...................................................288
B-series 400 MP Router and MP Router Blade.................................................................290
400 MP Router and MP Router Blade features and requirements...................................290
400 MP Router and MP Router Blade configuration examples.......................................291
B-series MP Router.......................................................................................................292
B-series MP Router features and requirements.............................................................292
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