User guide
Table Of Contents
- I
- Introduction
- Distance Solution
- Installation
- Step One: Ensure That Attached Devices Function Properly
- Step Two: Set Up Device Router
- Step Three: Clear the Node Mapping Table of the Host Router
- Step Four: Set Up Host Router
- Step Five: Run Connection Check
- Step Six: Run Subsystem Device Check
- Step Seven: Set Operating Mode
- Step Eight: Power Down Sequence (optional)
- Step Nine: Power Up Sequence (optional)
- Operation
- Installation
- SCSI-Fibre Channel Fabric Connectivity A5814A-003
- System Maintenance
- Serial Port Diagnostics
- Brocade 2800 Fabric Switch
- RAID Manager XP
- Appendix A: SCSI-Fibre Channel Router Specifications
- Appendix B: Diagnostic Status Codes
- Index
Hewlett-Packard SCSI-Fibre Channel Router Installation and User Guide
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6 Brocade 2800 Fabric Switch
The 8 port Brocade 2400 Silkworm Fibre Channel and the 16 port 2800 switch are both supported in a
Fibre Channel SAN topology. The primary use of the switch is to consolidate host port connections to the
limited ports available on the supported FC storage arrays.
6.1 Firmware Requirements
The firmware revision on the Brocade switches must be at or greater than 2.1.9F. Revision a2.4.1 was
tested and no problems were found.
Revision 2.1.9F did exhibit some problems in “auto sensing” a port. The Brocade switch incorrectly
configured a port to TYPE-G where later versions (a2.4.1) correctly configured a port to TYPE-L.
Manually set the port through either the serial port interface for the 2400 and the telnet interface for the
2800, to an TYPE-L by using the portCfgLport command. The Brocade Silkworm Switch User and
Installation Guide should be consulted before proceeding.
6.2 Zoning
The Brocade fabric switch supports the ability “carve” itself up into separate zones to keep servers from
stepping on each others storage devices. This feature is crucial when supporting a heterogeneous
environments where multiple operating system platforms are all connected to and share the resources on
today’s large enterprise storage solutions, like the XP storage array family from HP and HDS.
To configure a zone log onto the Brocade
switch using a browser and proceed to the
Zone Admin screen. Create a Zone called
“red” and drag port_0 through port_2 to the
right red Members window.
Next, create another zone named blue and
drag port_13 through port_15 to the blue
Members window on the right.