Port Connectrix Balanced Fabric Example - EMC Connectrix EC-1200 Planning Manual

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down an entire fabric. EMC highly recommends Connectrix Balanced
Fabrics for designs aiming for maximum availability.
EMC PowerPath is used in the servers to provide both load balancing
and multifabric availability services. Longwave optics modules
provide a longwave laser to drive the single-mode fiber between the
data centers.
Figure 4-9 shows a 256-port CBF built as a 256-port high-availability
data center-to-data center solution. Any one of these switches could
be an ED-1032, ED-64M, ED-140M, DS-16M, DS-16M2, DS-32M, or
DS-32M2. Due to the high value and high cost of the fiber
right-of-way, data center-to-data center applications are best
designed with ED-64Ms and/or ED-140Ms, due to their superior
availability characteristics.
Server with
PowerPath
HBA
HBA
Symmetrix

256-Port Connectrix Balanced Fabric Example

Figure 4-9
Data Center A
Connectrix
Domain ID 1
Connectrix
Domain ID 3
Data Center B
Server with
PowerPath
Connectrix
HBA
Domain ID 2
HBA
Connectrix
Symmetrix
Domain ID 4