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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide xxv
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Figure 1 Well-known addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Figure 2 Identifying the blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Figure 3 Blade swap with Virtual Fabrics during the swap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 4 Blade swap with Virtual Fabrics after the swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 5 Principal ISLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Figure 6 New switch added to existing fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Figure 7 Virtual Channels on a 1/2/4 Gbps ISL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Figure 8 Virtual Channels on an 8 Gbps ISL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Figure 9 Gateway link merges SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Figure 10 DCX-4S allowed ICL connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Figure 11 ICL triangular topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Figure 12 Single Host and Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Figure 13 Windows 2000 VSA configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Figure 14 Example of a Brocade DCT file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Figure 15 Example of the dictiona.dcm file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Figure 16 DH-CHAP authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Figure 17 Protected endpoints configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Figure 18 Gateway tunnel configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Figure 19 Endpoint to gateway tunnel configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Figure 20 Switch before and after enabling Virtual Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Figure 21 Switch before and after creating logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Figure 22 Fabric IDs assigned to logical switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Figure 23 Assigning ports to logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Figure 24 Logical switches connected to devices and non-Virtual Fabric switch . . . . . . . 214
Figure 25 Logical switches in a single chassis belong to separate fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Figure 26 Logical switches connected to other logical switches through physical ISLs. . 215
Figure 27 Logical switches connected to form logical fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Figure 28 Base switches connected by an XISL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Figure 29 Logical ISLs connecting logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Figure 30 Logical fabric using ISLs and XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Figure 31 Example of logical fabrics in multiple chassis and XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Figure 32 Zoning example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Figure 33 Broadcast zones and Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Figure 34 Traffic Isolation zone creating a dedicated path through the fabric. . . . . . . . . 268
Figure 35 Fabric incorrectly configured for TI zone with failover disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Figure 36 Dedicated path is the only shortest path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271