HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Networking Scenarios Cookbook

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Multiple Fabric-Attach fabric Support
Support for multiple SAN Fabric-Attach fabrics per VC-FC and FlexFabric modules allows the Storage administrator
to assign any of the available VC SAN uplinks to a different SAN fabric and dynamically assign server HBAs to the
desired SAN fabric.
Figure 8: Multiple SAN Fabric-Attach fabrics support
VC Domain
Fabric 1
Fabric 2 Fabric 3
Fabric 4
VC-FC Module
HBA1 HBA2
HBA1 HBA2 HBA1 HBA2
Server 3
Server 2
Server 1
HBA1 HBA2
Server 4
VC SAN 1
VC SAN 2
VC SAN 3 VC SAN 4
Figure 9: The Virtual Connect 4Gb and 8Gb 20-Port
Fibre Channel modules support up to 4 SAN fabrics
VC-FC 20-port Module
Fabric 1
Fabric 2 Fabric 3
Fabric 4
Figure 10: The Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-Port Fibre
Channel module supports up to 8 SAN fabrics
Fabric 1
Fabric 2 Fabric 3
Fabric 4
VC-FC 8Gb 24-Port Module
Fabric 5
Fabric 6 Fabric 7
Fabric 8
Figure 11: The Virtual Connect FlexFabric module supports up to 4 SAN fabrics
Fabric 1
Fabric 2 Fabric 3
Fabric 4
VC-FlexFabric Module
Uplink ports available for
FC connection