HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Networking Scenarios Cookbook

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Blade Server configuration
Server profile configuration steps can be found in Appendix A.
Verification
See Appendix F and Appendix G for verifications and troubleshooting steps.
Summary
In this scenario you have created two FC SAN Fabrics, utilizing a single uplink each; this is the simplest scenario that
can be used to maximize the use of the VC-FC uplink ports and reduce the number of datacenter SAN ports. A
multipathing driver is required for transparent failover between the two server HBA ports.
Additional uplinks could be added to the SAN fabrics which could increase performance and/or availability. This is
covered in the following scenario.