Managing Switches; About Transparent Routing; Viewing Switch Properties; Description Of The Switch Properties - HP 8/20q User Manual

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Managing Switches

This chapter provides the procedures for using Simple SAN Connection Manager to view and manage
your SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch or 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch.

About transparent routing

The transparent routing feature provides inter-fabric routing to enable controlled and limited access
between devices on an SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch or 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch (local) fabric and
devices on a remote fabric consisting of switches made by other vendors. For a list of switches that are
supported in a remote fabric, see the HP StorageWorks SAN Design Reference Guide located at the HP
website: http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide. This type of inter-fabric connection uses the Fibre
Channel industry N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), and makes local and remote devices accessible to each
other while maintaining the local and remote fabrics as separate fabrics.
Transparent routing configuration consists of connecting the local fabric over one or more TR_Ports to the
remote fabric, and then creating IFZs by which you map the local devices to the remote devices. To
complete the configuration and make it active, you must activate the same IFZs on both the local fabric and
the remote fabric.
Simple SAN Connection Manager displays, on the Physical Connection map (see page 39), the remote
fabric as an unavailable switch, which represents one or more HP StorageWorks B-series or C-series
switches and their connected devices. However, Simple SAN Connection Manager cannot be used to
manage the remote fabric or to configure transparent routing. To configure transparent routing, use the
SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch or 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch QuickTools web applet as described in the
HP StorageWorks 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch QuickTools Switch Management User Guide or the HP
StorageWorks SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch QuickTools Switch Management User Guide.

Viewing switch properties

Simple SAN Connection Manager provides a quick and easy way to view properties related to switches
within your SAN.

Description of the switch properties

The Switch Properties
• Symbolic Name
• Model
• World-wide name
• Serial Number
• MAC Address
• Domain ID
• Firmware Version
• Operational State
(Figure 26) include the following read-only information:
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