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Configuration Planning Tasks
Task 1: Prepare a Site Plan
Task 2: Plan Fibre Channel Cable Routing
Task 3: Consider Interoperability with Fabric Elements and End Devices
Task 4: Plan Console Management Support
Task 5: Plan Ethernet Access
Task 6: Plan Network Addresses
Task 7: Plan SNMP Support (Optional)
Task 8: Plan E-Mail Notification (Optional)
Task 9: Establish Product and Server Security Measures
Task 10: Plan Phone Connections
Task 11: Diagram the Planned Configuration
Task 12: Assign Port Names and Nicknames
This chapter describes configuration planning best-practices tasks to
be performed before installing one or more McDATA Fibre Channel
switching products in a storage area network (SAN) configuration.
Table 6-1
summarizes planning tasks described in the chapter.
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