Proxy Devices; Figure 76 Edge Sans Connected Through A Backbone Fabric - HP StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Proxy devices

An FC router achieves inter-fabric device connectivity by creating proxy devices (hosts and targets)
in attached fabrics that represent real devices in other fabrics. For example, a host in Fabric 1 can
communicate with a target in Fabric 2 as follows:
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The host discovers and sends Fibre Channel frames to the proxy target. The FC router receives
these frames, translates them appropriately, and then delivers them to the destination fabric for
delivery to the target.
The target responds by sending frames to the proxy host. Hosts and targets are exported from the
edge SAN to which they are attached and, correspondingly, imported into the edge SAN reached
through Fibre Channel routing.
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FC router
EX_Port
IFL
E_Port
Edge SAN 1
= LSAN
FIGURE 76
Edge SANs connected through a backbone fabric
Phantom domains
A phantom domain is a domain emulated by the Fibre Channel router. The FC router can
emulate two types of phantom domains: front phantom domains and translate phantom
domains. For detailed information about phantom domains, refer to
page 577.
A proxy target in Fabric 1 represents the real target in Fabric 2.
Likewise, a proxy host in Fabric 2 represents the real host in Fabric 1.
Fibre Channel routing concepts
ISL
Backbone
fabric
Edge SAN 2
Figure 77 illustrates this concept.
FC router
EX_Port
IFL
E_Port
"Phantom domains"
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