Fabric Redundancy And Routing; H-Series Switch Routing - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

Figure 23 shows how TR_Ports on the H-series switch can connect devices in a local fabric to devices
in a remote fabric. When a device on the H-series switch is mapped to a device in the remote fabric,
the H-series switch automatically creates an inter-fabric zone whose members are the two devices
and the TR_Port that connects them. CLI commands for adding this zone to the remote fabric zone set
are generated automatically.
H-series
switch (TR)
Inter-fabric
zone (IFZ)
Remote
fabric
Fabric zone
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Figure 23 H-series switch routing
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Fabric redundancy and routing

B-series 8 Gb/s switches with integrated Fibre Channel routing, 1606 Extension SAN Switches or
DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blades, or MP Routers can connect one group of fabrics, or a single
fabric can connect multiple Virtual Fabrics or VSANs with IFR or IVR. For a high-availability, fully
redundant implementation, you can have two routers and two groups of fabrics (Figure 24), or two
groups of Virtual Fabrics or VSANs with IFR (Figure 25) or IVR (Figure 26).
For more information, see "High-availability MP Router configurations" on page 74.
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