HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 .HP StorageWorks SAN Design Reference Guide, Pa - Page 4

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 4