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

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 277

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About Fibre Channel routing

FIGURE 174 A metaSAN with edge-to-edge and backbone fabrics

For additional information about FC-FC routing, see the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

Setting Up FC-FC routing

1. Ensure that the backbone fabric ID of the FC Router is the same as that of other FC Routers in

the backbone fabric.

2. On the FC Router, ensure that the ports to be configured as EX_Ports are either not connected

or are disabled.

3. Configure EX_Ports, as described in “Connect edge fabrics” on page 278. As part of this

configuration, supply a fabric ID for the fabric to which the port will be connected. You can

choose any unique fabric ID as long as it is consistent for all EX_Ports that connect to the same

edge fabric.

4. Connect the cables from the EX_Ports on the FC Router to the edge fabrics, if they are not

already connected.

5. Configure LSAN zones on the fabrics that will share devices. See “Device sharing between

fabrics” on page 280.

6. View the information in the LSAN View and the FCR Information to make sure that your

configuration has succeeded.

Edge Fabric 1

Backbone Fabric

Edge Fabric 3

Edge Fabric 2

IP Cloud

= LSAN

SilkWorm

7500

VEX_Port

VE_Port

EX_Port (2)

E_Port

IFL

IFL IFL