Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer's Guide v11.1.0 (53-1002169-01, May 2011)

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Brocade Access Gateway and NPIV

AG connected to multiple fabrics

Figure 48 explains an AG connected to multiple fabrics.

As shown in Figure 48, the Fabric 1 and Fabric 2 share the AG. The N1 port of AG is connected to

Fabric 1 and the N4 port of AG is connected to Fabric 2. The internal mapping on AG is done such

that N1 is mapped with F1 and F2, and N4 is mapped with F3.

Though AG is shared with more than one fabric, it allows only one instance of AG to be associated

with both the fabrics. If Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent is in direct connection with one of the

fabrics connected with the shared AG, the user can see all the ports of AG, but the topology

traversal works only for that fabric alone.The user can also traverse through the mapped F_Ports of

the N_Ports (which is connected to the edge fabric switch) to the end devices.

FIGURE 48 AG mapping with multiple fabrics

AG with NPIV

Figure 49 represents the AG with NPIV model where the switch is connected to AG and the AG is

connected to HBAs that has one NPIV-enabled device with two virtualized ports.

Figure 50 is the combination of AG and NPIV data models.

HBA2

HBA1

HBA3

Switch 1

Fabric 2

Fabric 1

Switch 2