Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-10000196-01-HP, November 2006)

Fabric Manager Administrator’s Guide 19-3

Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP

Setting Up FC-FC Routing

Figure 19-1 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

The following procedure provides the basic steps for setting up FC-FC Routing using a Fibre Channel

router (FC Router).

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 “Connecting Edge Fabrics” on page 19-4. As part of this

configuration, supply a fabric ID for the fabric to which the port will get 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 “Sharing Devices Between

Fabrics” on page 19-6.

6. View the information in the LSAN View and the FCR Info View 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