FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual (620-000159-320, April 2005)

Consolidating EFC Servers

D-1

Consolidating

Management Servers

This appendix provides instructions to consolidate multiple rack-

mount management servers by configuring one unit as the server and

configuring the remaining units as clients backups. The appendix

provides the following sections:

•Overview.

• Consolidating management servers.

• Reconfiguring a client after an management server failure.

Overview

For control and efficiency, directors and switches in a multiswitch

fabric should be managed by a single management server. When

multiple servers communicate with directors and switches, the

control environment should be consolidated to one rack-mount

server. The remaining servers should be configured as client backups.

Although there can be multiple server configurations, the two

configurations described as follows are the most probable and are

addressed in this appendix.

• Multiple management servers (Figure D-1 on page D-2), each

with one Ethernet media adapter connected to a private network

(LAN 2) that provides director and switch attachment. The

second Ethernet media adapter (LAN 1) is not connected.