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B-series Virtual Fabrics with IFR ...................................................................................... 50
C-series VSANs with IVR ............................................................................................... 51
H-series switches with TR ............................................................................................... 51
FCoE fabric topologies ........................................................................................................ 52
Data availability ................................................................................................................ 53
Levels ......................................................................................................................... 54
Considerations ............................................................................................................ 56
Topology migration ............................................................................................................ 58
Nondisruptive migration ............................................................................................... 58
Migrating a cascaded fabric SAN ................................................................................. 58
Migrating a meshed fabric SAN .................................................................................... 58
Migrating a ring fabric SAN ......................................................................................... 59
3 Fibre Channel routing .................................................................. 61
Fibre Channel routing overview ............................................................................................ 61
Fabric, Virtual Fabric, and VSAN independence .............................................................. 62
Fabric services ............................................................................................................. 62
World Wide Name ..................................................................................................... 62
Import and export ........................................................................................................ 62
Routing table ............................................................................................................... 62
SAN scaling and routing ..................................................................................................... 63
Switch scaling ............................................................................................................. 63
Scaling by routing ....................................................................................................... 64
Fibre Channel routing implementations .................................................................................. 64
Fibre Channel routing techniques ................................................................................... 64
B-series fabric groups ................................................................................................... 66
B-series fabric partitioning using Virtual Fabrics ................................................................ 66
B-series Virtual Fabrics architecture ................................................................................. 66
C-series fabric partitioning ............................................................................................ 66
H-series switch fabric routing ......................................................................................... 67
B-series, C-series, and H-series routing differences ............................................................ 67
Fabric redundancy and routing ............................................................................................ 69
Supported routing configurations .......................................................................................... 71
Routing and core-edge fabrics ....................................................................................... 71
Routing through an IP network ....................................................................................... 73
High-availability router configurations ............................................................................. 74
400 MP Router and MP Router Blade use cases ............................................................... 75
H-series switches with TR configurations .......................................................................... 75
Routing use cases ........................................................................................................ 76
II ..Fabric infrastructure rules ................................................................. 81
4 H-series switches and fabric rules ................................................... 83
H-series switches ................................................................................................................ 83
Model numbering ........................................................................................................ 84
Model naming ............................................................................................................ 84
Switch models ............................................................................................................. 84
Features ...................................................................................................................... 84
Usage ........................................................................................................................ 86
Fabric rules ....................................................................................................................... 86
Servers, operating systems, and storage products ............................................................. 87
Fabric rules for H-series switches .................................................................................... 88
ISL maximums ............................................................................................................. 88
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