Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus User Manual - Supporting DCFM 10.3.x (53-1001356-01, October 2009)

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Guidelines for setting up FC-FC routing

FIGURE 128 A metaSAN with edge-to-edge and backbone fabrics

Guidelines for setting up FC-FC routing

The following are some general guidelines for setting up FC-FC routing.

• Ensure that the backbone fabric ID of the FC Router is the same as that of other FC Routers in

the backbone fabric.

• On the FC Router, ensure that the ports to be configured as EX_Ports are either not connected

or are disabled.

• When configuring EX_Ports, supply a fabric ID for the fabric to which the port will be connected.

You can choose any unique fabric ID as long as it is consistent for all EX_Ports that connect to

the same edge fabric.

• For virtual fabric (VF)-enabled fabrics, only the base switch can be configured as the FC Router;

for example, EX_Ports can be configured only on a base switch for a VF-enabled switch.

Edge fabric 1

Backbone fabric

Edge fabric 3

Edge fabric 2

IP cloud

= LSAN

FC router

VEX_Port

VE_Port

EX_Port (2)

E_Port

IFL

IFL IFL