Administrator's Guide v4.1.1 Manual

FIGURE 29 Hosts connecting to FC fabric through VDX Switch in AG mode
NOTE
An AG switch can connect to only one Fibre Channel SAN. Ports on this switch connecting to a
second FC SAN are disabled. Multiple AG switches, each belonging to a different VCS cluster, can
connect to the same SAN fabric.
The following figure illustrates an alternate connection of hosts (servers) to a FC fabric through a VDX
6730 Switch is not in Access Gateway mode. A VDX FC port, configured as an E_Port, connects to
the FC SAN through an ISL connection to a FC router. For more information on configuring FC ports
for an ISL and FC router connection, refer to Configuring Fibre Channel Ports on page 199.
Using Access Gateway
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