Configuring Enterprise Fabric Mode; About Enterprise Fabric Mode - HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 User Manual

Configuring Enterprise Fabric Mode

The Enterprise Fabric Mode option is available on the Configure menu. This
option automatically enables features and operating parameters that are necessary
in multiswitch Enterprise Fabric environments. When Enterprise Fabric Mode is
enabled, each switch in the fabric automatically enforces a number of
security-related features including Fabric Binding, Switch Binding, Insistent
Domain IDs, Domain Register for State Change Notifications (RSCNs), and
Rerouting Delays.

About Enterprise Fabric Mode

Activating Enterprise Fabric Mode enables the following:
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Fabric Binding—Allows or prohibits switches from merging with a selected
fabric.
Switch Binding—This feature, enabled through a product's Element
Manager, allows or prohibits switches from connecting to switch E_Ports and
products from connecting to F_Ports.
Rerouting Delay—This feature, enabled through a product's Element
Manager, ensures that frames are delivered through the fabric in order to their
destination. If there is a change to the fabric topology that creates a new path
(for example, a new switch is added to the fabric), frames may be routed over
this new path if its hop count is less than a previous path with a minimum hop
count. This may result in frames being delivered to a destination out of order
since frames sent over the new, shorter path may arrive ahead of older frames
still in route over the older path.
Domain RSCNs—This feature, enabled through a product's Element
Manager, indicates that an event occurred to a switch in a fabric. The only
cause would be a switch entering or leaving the fabric. Notifications are sent
fabric-wide and are not constrained by a zone set. Domain RSCNs are not sent
between end-products.
Insistent Domain ID—This feature, enabled through a product's Element
Manager, sets the domain ID as the active domain identification when the
fabric initializes. If Insistent Domain ID is enabled, the switch isolates itself
from the fabric if the preferred Domain ID is not assigned as the switch's
Domain ID.
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