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Figure 3-2 shows an example of a director view with IN-VSN Manager.
Figure 3-2 Example of IN-VSN management view
The most commonly used interface with the INRANGE FC/9000 director is the
IN-VSN software tool. Therefore, in the following topics we will focus on how to
use IN-VSN.
3.1.4 Supported protocols
In most environments, a homogeneous landscape of servers and storage is hard
to find. For example, most tape-drives solely support FC_AL (known as
arbitrated loop), whereas modern disk systems are widely used with
point-to-point protocol (sometimes called P2P).
Thus, enterprise wide SAN solutions should be flexible enough to support
different FCP topologies.