Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.1 (53-1002446-01, March 2012)

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Figure 1 Well-known addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Figure 2 Identifying the blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Figure 3 Blade swap with Virtual Fabrics during the swap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 4 Blade swap with Virtual Fabrics after the swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 5 Principal ISLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Figure 6 New switch added to existing fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Figure 7 Virtual channels on a QoS-enabled ISL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Figure 8 Gateway link merging SANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Figure 9 Single host and target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Figure 10 Windows 2000 VSA configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Figure 11 Example of a Brocade DCT file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Figure 12 Example of the dictiona.dcm file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Figure 13 DH-CHAP authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Figure 14 Protected endpoints configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Figure 15 Gateway tunnel configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Figure 16 Endpoint-to-gateway tunnel configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Figure 17 Switch before and after enabling Virtual Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Figure 18 Switch before and after creating logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Figure 19 Fabric IDs assigned to logical switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Figure 20 Assigning ports to logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Figure 21 Logical switches connected to devices and non-Virtual Fabrics switch . . . . . . 216
Figure 22 Logical switches in a single chassis belong to separate fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Figure 23 Logical switches connected to other logical switches through physical ISLs. . 217
Figure 24 Logical switches connected to form logical fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Figure 25 Base switches connected by an XISL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Figure 26 Logical ISLs connecting logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Figure 27 Logical fabric using ISLs and XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Figure 28 Example of logical fabrics in multiple chassis and XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Figure 29 Zoning example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Figure 30 Broadcast zones and Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Figure 31 Traffic Isolation zone creating a dedicated path through the fabric. . . . . . . . . 270
Figure 32 Fabric incorrectly configured for TI zone with failover disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Figure 33 Dedicated path is the only shortest path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Figure 34 Dedicated path is not the shortest path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Figure 35 Enhanced TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274