HP Brocade 8/12c Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer's Guide - Page 107

Brocade Access Gateway and NPIV 3 AG connected to multiple fabrics Figure 48 explains an AG connected to multiple fabrics. As shown in Figure 48, the Fabric 1 and Fabric 2 share the AG. The N1 port of AG is connected to Fabric 1 and the N4 port of AG is connected to Fabric 2. The internal mapping on AG is done such that N1 is mapped with F1 and F2, and N4 is mapped with F3. Though AG is shared with more than one fabric, it allows only one instance of AG to be associated with both the fabrics. If Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent is in direct connection with one of the fabrics connected with the shared AG, the user can see all the ports of AG, but the topology traversal works only for that fabric alone.The user can also traverse through the mapped F_Ports of the N_Ports (which is connected to the edge fabric switch) to the end devices. HBA1 HBA2 n1 F1 n2 F2 F3 Switch 1 F1 AG N1 N2 N3 N4 Fabric 1 F2 Switch 2 n3 HBA3 Fabric 2 FIGURE 48 AG mapping with multiple fabrics AG with NPIV Figure 49 represents the AG with NPIV model where the switch is connected to AG and the AG is connected to HBAs that has one NPIV-enabled device with two virtualized ports. Figure 50 is the combination of AG and NPIV data models. Brocade Network Advisor SMI Agent Developer's Guide 95 53-1002169-01