Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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Chapter

Using the FC-FC Routing Service

In this chapter

•FC-FC routing service overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

•Fibre Channel routing concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

•Setting up the FC-FC routing service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

•Backbone fabric IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

•FCIP tunnel configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

•Inter-fabric link configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

•FC Router port cost configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

•EX_Port frame trunking configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

•LSAN zone configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

•Proxy PID configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

•Fabric parameter considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

•Inter-fabric broadcast frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

•Resource monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

•FC-FC Routing and Virtual Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

•Upgrade and downgrade considerations for FC-FC routing . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

•Displaying the range of output ports connected to xlate domains . . . . . . 500

FC-FC routing service overview

The FC-FC routing service provides Fibre Channel routing (FCR) between two or more fabrics

without merging those fabrics. For example, using FCR you can share tape drives across multiple

fabrics without the administrative problems, such as change management, network management,

scalability, reliability, availability, and serviceability, that might result from merging the fabrics.

A Fibre Channel router (FC router) is a switch running the FC-FC routing service. The FC-FC routing

service can be simultaneously used as an FC router and as a SAN extension over wide area

networks (WANs) using FCIP.

You can set up QoS traffic prioritization over FC routers. See “QoS: SID/DID traffic prioritization” on

page 413 for information about QoS and instructions for setting traffic prioritization over an FC

router.

FCR supports interoperability with some versions of M-EOS. For more information about M-EOS

interoperability support, see Appendix A, “Interoperation of Fabric OS and M-EOS Fabrics Using FC

Router”.