64 Service Manual (AA-RS2ED-TE, July 2004)

General Information

20 Director 2/64 Service Manual

Director Description

The Director 2/64 is a second-generation, 32-port product (expandable to 64

ports) that provides dynamic switched connections between Fibre Channel servers

and devices in a SAN environment. Directors (from one to four) can be configured

to order in an HP-supplied equipment rack, which can provide up to 256 ports in a

single cabinet.

Directors are managed and controlled through a HAFM appliance supplied by HP

with the HAFM application and Director 2/64 Element Manager installed. The

HAFM appliance is a rack-mount server that provides a central point of control

for up to 48 directors and/or edge switches. Multiple directors and the HAFM

appliance communicate through the customer’s local area network (LAN).

The director provides dynamic switched connections for servers and devices,

supports mainframe and Open-Systems Interconnection (OSI) 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 or switches to form a Fibre Channel

multi-switch fabric.