HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Networking Scenarios Cookbook

Scenario 2: VC Fabric-Attach SAN fabrics with Dynamic

fabric

Overview

This scenario covers the setup and configuration of two VC Fabric-Attach SAN Fabrics with Dynamic Login Balancing

Distribution, each utilizing two to eight uplink ports connected to a redundant Fabric.

Figure 40 : 8:1 oversubscription with VC-FC 8Gb 20-Port modules using 4 uplink ports

VC Domain

Fabric-1

Fabric 1

Fabric-2

Server 1

HBA1

HBA2

Server 2

HBA1

HBA2

Server 3

HBA1

HBA2

Server 16

HBA2

HBA1

…

Fabric 2

VC-FC 8Gb

20-port Module

8:1

server-to-uplink ratio

on a fully populated enclosure with 16 servers

Note: Static Login Distribution has been removed since VC firmware 3.00 but is the only method available in VC

firmware 1.24 and earlier. Dynamic Login Balancing capabilities are included in VC firmware 1.3x and later.