HP P6000 Continuous Access Implementation Guide (T3680-96431, August 2012)
11. Replication zone5. Hosts
12. Intersite link6. Fibre Channel switches
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The zones depicted in the figure above as yellow or green should not be zoned across the sites. Each site should have
a unique yellow and green zone.
Figure 29 Dual physical fabric with six zones (four-port controller pair to eight-port controller pair)
7. Host I/O zone
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1. Data center 1
8. Replication zone2. Data center 2
9. Intersite link3. Array controller pair
10. Host I/O zone
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4. Management server
11. Replication zone5. Hosts
12. Intersite link6. Fibre Channel switches
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The zones depicted in the figure above as yellow or green should not be zoned across the sites. Each site should have
a unique yellow and green zone.
Best practices for using zones with HP P6000 Continuous Access
Observe the following when using zones with HP P6000 Continuous Access.
• The even-numbered controller host ports should be included in one zone, and the odd-numbered
host ports should be included in a different zone.
• In configurations with eight-port controller pairs, use host ports F1 and F2 for host I/O, and
use ports F3 and F4 for replication when setting up either a five or six zone configuration.
For five zone configurations it is acceptable to use a single port per controller for replication
if you don't want to dedicate two ports per controller.
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