1 HV Installation and Operations Guide

Chapter Overview 15

Introduction

Chapter Overview

This chapter contains information on the following:

■ Operation Indicators on page 18

■ Processing SCSI Information on page 20

■ HP Surestore Bridge Features on page 22

■ HP Surestore Bridge Benefits on page 24

■ Fibre Bridge Components and Supported Products on page 25

■ Choosing a Location on page 28

■ Fibre Channel Configurations on page 29

The HP Surestore FC 2/1 LV and 4/1 HV bridges provide connectivity

between a Fibre Channel (FC) point-to-point (PPP), Fibre Channel switched

fabric (FC-SW) or Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) and two LVD Ultra-2

SCSI buses on the 2/1 LV, and four HVD Narrow/Wide Fast/Ultra SCSI buses

on the 4/1 HV.

The bridge is a storage router that translates the Fibre Channel protocol (FCP)

to and from the SCSI protocol so that Fibre Channel and SCSI devices can

communicate with each other. It attaches to a Fibre Channel host or switch and

transfers the command, data, and status information to SCSI targets. Packets

are transferred transparently by the bridge from host to targets and vice versa.