DCFM Enterprise User Manual (53-1001775-01, June 2010)

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Chapter
19
FC-FC Routing Service Management
In this chapter
•Devices that support Fibre Channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
•Fibre Channel routing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
•Guidelines for setting up FC-FC routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
•Connecting edge fabrics to a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
•Configuring routing domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Devices that support Fibre Channel routing
The FC-FC Routing Service is supported only on the following devices:
• 40-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch
• 80-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch
• 4 Gbps Router, Extension Switch
• 8 Gbps 16-FC ports, 6-Gbps ports Extension Switch
• Director chassis, when configured with any of the following blades:
- 4 Gbps Router, Extension Blade
- FC 8 GB 16-port Blade
- FC 8 GB 32-port Blade
- FC 8 GB 48-port Blade - The shared ports area (ports 16-47) cannot be used as EX_Ports.
- 8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports, 2-10 GbE ports Extension Blade
• Backbone chassis, when configured with any of the following blades:
- 4 Gbps Router, Extension Blade
- FC 8 GB 16-port Blade
- FC 8 GB 32-port Blade
- FC 8 GB 48-port Blade - The shared ports area (ports 16-47) cannot be used as EX_Ports.
- FC8 GB 64-port Blade
- 8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports, 2-10 GbE ports Extension Blade