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Single fabric deployment - DEK cluster

In Figure
devices. The encryption switches are interconnected through a dedicated cluster LAN. The Ge1 and
Ge0 gigabit Ethernet ports on each of these switches are attached to this LAN. This LAN connection
provides the communication needed to distribute and synchronize configuration information, and
enable the two switches to act as a high availability (HA) cluster, providing automatic failover if one
of the switches fails, or is taken out of service.

Single fabric deployment - DEK cluster

Figure 98
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FIGURE 98
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97, the two encryption switches provide a redundant encryption path to the target
shows an encryption deployment in a single fabric with two paths between a host and a
Key Management
Appliance
or Key Vault
Virtual
Target
Encryption
Switch
Virtual
Initiator
Cluster Link
Ciphertext
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Single fabric deployment - DEK cluster
Management
Network
LAN
Host
Host Port 2
Host Port 1
Fabric
Target Target
Port 1 Port 2
Target
Dedicated Cluster
Network
LAN
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide
Management
Station
(DCFM)
Virtual
Target
Encryption
Switch
Virtual
Initiator
Cluster Link
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