HP Fibre Channel Fabric Migration Guide

Fabric Migration Guide
Supported Fabric Configurations
Chapter 110
Figure 1-1 Isolated Private Arbitrated Loop Configuration
This isolated private loop is a typical configuration. It uses two hubs for
some redundancy to the target devices. This configuration will continue
to be supported.
Direct Fabric Attachment
A simple migration to a fabric configuration is to replace the two hubs
with two Fibre Channel switches. Redundant paths to the targets are
maintained while each link is isolated from each other providing better
performance and reliability.
Figure 1-2 illustrates this fabric configuration.