Reference Guide

NOTE
Fabric OS v7.2.0 is not supported on the Brocade 7600 or Brocade SAS blade. However, this hardware can run in a pre-Fabric
OS v7.2.0 system and attach to a Fabric OS v7.2.0 fabric.
Frame Redirection uses a combination of special frame redirection zones and name server changes to spoof the mapping of real device
WWNs to virtual PIDs.
FIGURE 9 Single host and target
Figure 9 demonstrates the flow of Frame Redirection traffic. A frame starts at the host with a destination to the target. The port where the
appliance is attached to the host switch acts as the virtual initiator and the port where the appliance is attached to the target switch is the
virtual target.
Creating a frame redirect zone
The first time the zone --rdcreate command is run, the following zone objects are created by default:
∙ The base zone object, "red_______base".
∙ The redirect (RD) zone configuration, "r_e_d_i_r_c__fg".
NOTE
Frame redirect zones are not supported with D or I initiator target zones.
ATTENTION
Prior to creating the frame redirect zone, you must create a Layer 2 zone for the Initiator (host) and Target (storage). This zone
must be part of the effective configuration and must be defined using the port World Wide Name (WWN). Refer to Creating a
zone on page 308, and Enabling a zone configuration on page 322.
Use the following procedure to create a frame redirect zone.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the zone --rdcreate command.
3. Enter the cfgSave command to save the frame redirect zones to the defined configuration.
The following example creates a redirect zone, given a host (10:10:10:10:10:10:10:10), target (20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20), virtual
initiator (30:30:30:30:30:30:30:30), and virtual target (40:40:40:40:40:40:40:40):
switch:admin>zone --rdcreate 10:10:10:10:10:10:10:10 20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20 \
30:30:30:30:30:30:30:30 40:40:40:40:40:40:40:40 restartable noFCR
Routing Traffic
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