Supported Switches For Fibre Channel Routing; Setting Up Fc-Fc Routing - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing

VEX-Port
A device is shared between:
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Supported switches for Fibre Channel Routing

The FC-FC Routing Service is supported only on the following switch models:
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Setting up FC-FC routing

The following procedure provides the basic steps for setting up FC-FC Routing using an FC Router.
1. Ensure that the backbone fabric ID of the FC Router is the same as that of other FC Routers in
2. On the FC Router, ensure that the ports to be configured as EX-Ports are either not connected
3. Configure EX-Ports by clicking the EX-Ports tab and then clicking New.
4. Connect the cables from the EX-Ports on the FC Router to the edge fabrics, if they were not
5. Configure LSAN zones on the fabrics that share devices.
6. View the information in the EX-Ports, LSAN Fabrics, LSAN Zones, and LSAN Devices tabs to
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A virtual port that enables routing functionality through an FCIP tunnel. A
VEX-Port is similar to an EX-Port.
The backbone fabric and edge fabric 1
Edge fabric 1 and edge fabric 2
Edge fabric 2 and edge fabric 3
Brocade VA-40FC
Brocade 6510
Brocade 6520
Brocade 5100 and 5300 switches
Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
Brocade DCX and DCX-4S enterprise-class platforms, when configured with FR4-18i, FC8-16,
FC8-32, FC8-48, FC8-64, FS8-18, or FX8-24 blades.
Brocade DCX 8510-4 and DCX 8510-8, when configured with FC8-32E, FC8-48E, FC16-32 or
FC16-48 blades.
the backbone fabric. Refer to
or are disabled.
Follow the instructions in the wizard. Refer to
connected before.
NOTE
For a multi-FC Router backbone fabric, make sure that each FC Router is connected to a switch
in the backbone fabric.
Refer to "Viewing LSAN zones"
make sure that your configuration succeeded.
"Configuring the backbone fabric ID"
"Viewing EX-Ports"
on page 136.
on page 137.
on page 134.
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