Supported Switches For Fibre Channel Routing; Setting Up Fc-Fc Routing; Fc-Fc Routing Management - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

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Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing

VEX_Port
A device is shared between:
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Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing

The FC-FC Routing Service is supported only on the following switch models:
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Setting up FC-FC routing

The following procedure provides the basic steps for setting up FC-FC Routing using an FC Router.
1. Ensure that the backbone fabric ID of the FC Router is the same as that of other FC Routers in
2. On the FC Router, ensure that the ports to be configured as EX_Ports are either not connected
3. Configure EX_Ports by clicking the EX Ports tab and then clicking New.
4. Connect the cables from the EX_Ports on the FC Router to the edge fabrics, if they were not
5. Configure LSAN zones on the fabrics that share devices.
6. View the information in the EX Ports, LSAN Fabrics, LSAN Zones, and LSAN Devices tabs to

FC-FC routing management

You can perform Fibre Channel Routing operations using Web Tools, Web Tools with the EGM
license, and Integrated Routing license. You can manage FC-FC Routing through the FC Routing
module, shown in
EX_Ports, LSAN fabrics, LSAN zones, LSAN devices, and general FCR information.
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A virtual port that enables routing functionality through an FCIP tunnel. A
VEX_Port is similar to an EX_Port.
The backbone fabric and edge fabric 1
Edge fabric 1 and edge fabric 2
Edge fabric 2 and edge fabric 3
Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches, and the 7500, 7500E and 7800 Extension Switches.
Brocade 48000 director, when configured with an FR4-18i blade.
Brocade DCX and DCX-4S enterprise-class platforms, when configured with FR4-18i, FC8-16,
FC8-32, FC8-48, or FX8-24 blades.
the backbone fabric. Refer to
or are disabled.
Follow the instructions in the wizard. Refer to
connected before.
NOTE
For a multi-FC Router backbone fabric, make sure that each FC Router is connected to a switch
in the backbone fabric.
Refer to "Viewing LSAN zones"
make sure that your configuration succeeded.
Figure 46 on page 152. The FC Routing module has tabbed panes that display
"Configuring the backbone fabric ID"
"Viewing EX_Ports"
on page 156.
on page 156.
on page 153.
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