Administrator Guide

xxvi Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Figure 37 Dedicated path is not the shortest path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Figure 38 Enhanced TI zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Figure 39 Illegal ETIZ configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Figure 40 Traffic Isolation Zoning over FCR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Figure 41 TI zone in an edge fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Figure 42 TI zone in a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Figure 43 TI zone misconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Figure 44 Dedicated path with Virtual Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Figure 45 Creating a TI zone in a logical fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Figure 46 Creating a TI zone in a base fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Figure 47 Example configuration for TI zones over FC routers in logical fabrics . . . . . . . 281
Figure 48 Logical representation of TI zones over FC routers in logical fabrics . . . . . . . . 282
Figure 49 TI over FCR example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Figure 50 Typical direct E_Port configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Figure 51 Fabric with two Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Figure 52 Filtered fabric views when using Admin Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Figure 53 Fabric with AD0 and AD255. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Figure 54 Fabric showing switch and device WWNs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Figure 55 Filtered fabric views showing converted switch WWNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Figure 56 AD0 and two user-defined Admin Domains, AD1 and AD2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Figure 57 AD0 with three zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Figure 58 Setting end-to-end monitors on a port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Figure 59 Proper placement of end-to-end performance monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Figure 60 Mask positions for end-to-end monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Figure 61 QoS traffic prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Figure 62 QoS with E_Ports enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Figure 63 Traffic prioritization in a logical fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Figure 64 Distribution of traffic over ISL Trunking groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Figure 65 Trunk group configuration for the Brocade 5100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Figure 66 Switch in Access Gateway mode without F_Port trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Figure 67 Switch in Access Gateway mode with F_Port masterless trunking . . . . . . . . . . 434
Figure 68 A metaSAN with inter-fabric links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Figure 69 A metaSAN with edge-to-edge and backbone fabrics and LSAN zones . . . . . . 459
Figure 70 Edge SANs connected through a backbone fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Figure 71 MetaSAN with imported devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Figure 72 Sample topology (physical topology) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Figure 73 EX_Port phantom switch topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Figure 74 Example of setting up Speed LSAN tag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Figure 75 LSAN zone binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
Figure 76 EX_Ports in a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Figure 77 Logical representation of EX_Ports in a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Figure 78 Backbone-to-edge routing across base switch using FC router in legacy mode 495