5 B-Series Switches And Fabric Rules; B-Series Fibre Channel Switches, 1606 Extension San Switches, And Mp Routers - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

5 B-series switches and fabric rules

This chapter describes the B-series Fibre Channel and FCoE switches and blades; Extension SAN
Switches and Blades; MP Routers, and fabric rules for building B-series fabrics. It describes the following
topics:
B-series Fibre Channel switches, 1606 Extension SAN Switches, and MP
Fibre Channel switch fabric
B-series FCoE Converged Network
DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade and 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch fabric
rules, page 133
NOTE:
See "SAN fabric connectivity and switch interoperability
using switches from the different series in the same SAN or the same fabric.
B-series Fibre Channel switches, 1606 Extension SAN Switches,
and MP Routers
B-series Fibre Channel switches:
Can be core or edge switches. When configured in a core-edge fabric topology, a core switch
typically connects to other switches in the SAN; an edge switch typically connects to servers and
storage.
Have 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 80, 128, 192, 256, or 384 ports.
Include entry-level and high-availability switches.
Support plug-and-play compatibility.
Support 10 Gb/s ISL connectivity (through a 10/6 FC ISL Blade for DC SAN Backbone Director,
DC04 SAN Director, or 4/256 SAN Director).
Support Fibre Channel routing (see
Blade fabric
"Fibre Channel routing, 400 MP Router, and MP Router Blade fabric
"MP Router fabric
Support FCIP through the 1606 Extension SAN Switch, DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blade, 400
MP Router, MP Router Blade, MP Router, and HP IP Distance Gateway (see
"SAN extension" on page 279).
Support iSCSI through the MP Router and iSCSI Director Blade (see
Support encryption through the encryption switch and encryption blade.
Switch blade support is as follows:
rules, page 106
switch, page 130
"1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC Dir Switch MP Extension
rules" on page 112,
rules" on page 121).
Routers, page 93
rules" on page 167 for information about
rules" on page 116, and
"iSCSI storage" on page 355).
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