Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Chapter
20
FC-FC Routing Service Management
In this chapter
The FC-FC Routing Service provides Fibre Channel routing between two or more fabrics without
merging those fabrics.
•Requirements for Fibre Channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
•About Fibre Channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
•Connect edge fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
•Fabric device sharing diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
•Device sharing between fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
•Logical SANs and imported/exported devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
•FC Router information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
•FC-FC routing and secure fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Requirements for Fibre Channel routing
The FC-FC Routing Service is supported only on the following switch models:
• Brocade 5100
• Brocade 5300
• Brocade 7500 switch
• Brocade 48000 director, when configured with the following blades: (see the Fabric OS
Administrator’s Guide for more information)
• FR4-18i
• FC8-16
• FC8-32
• FC8-48 - the shared ports area (ports 16-47) cannot be used as EX-ports
• Brocade 7420 (see the XPath OS Administrator’s Guide for information about managing this
switch)
Fabric Manager scans all switches discovered. Any of the supported switches listed above are
considered FC Router-capable. If an EX_Port or VEX_Port is configured for that switch, the switch is
FC-Router enabled.
The FC-FC Routing Service is not supported on AD-enabled edge fabrics.
Only users with the Admin role can configure FC-FC routing.