- IBM switch Users and Maintenance Guide

In Figure 26 on page 39, the fibre channel switches are connected together via the
inter-switch link (ISL) to form a single SAN fabric.
Host system
with two host
adapters
Host system
with two host
adapters
Host system
with two host
adapters
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Switch
Switch
Note: Node level
redundancy with
cluster software.
Host system
with two host
adapters
Host system
with two host
adapters
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Figure 25. Examples of redundant host and drive fibre channel loop configurations (base
storage server)
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