FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Intrepid 6064 Director Installation and Service Manual (620-000108-920, April 2005)

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Intrepid® 6064 Director Installation and Service Manual
General Information
computing environments, and provides data transmission and flow
control between device node ports (N_Ports) as dictated by the Fibre
Channel Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH 4.3). Through
interswitch links (ISLs), the director can also connect to one or more
additional directors to form a Fibre Channel multiswitch fabric.
The director can be managed through a rack-mount management
server running a Java™-based SAN management application
(SANavigator
®
or Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM)
and the Intrepid 6064 Element Manager application.
Multiple directors and the management server communicate on a
local area network (LAN) through one or more 10/100 Base-T
Ethernet hubs. One or more 24-port Ethernet hubs are optional and
can be ordered with the director. Up to three hubs can be
daisy-chained to provide additional Ethernet connections as more
directors (or other McDATA managed products) are installed on a
customer network.
As an option, administrators or operators with a browser-capable PC
and an Internet connection can monitor and manage the director
through the SANpilot interface. The SANpilot interface manages
only a single director, and provides a graphical user interface (GUI)
that supports product configuration, statistics monitoring, and basic
operation. The SANpilot interface is opened from a standard web
browser running Netscape Navigator
®
4.6 or higher or Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
Figure 1-1 illustrates an equipment rack with four directors, the
management server, and an Ethernet hub.