HP StorageWorks 4/64 Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1 - Page 33
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Failover policy 2 • Next the F_A2 port goes offline, as shown in Figure 4 on page 15 Example 2 (right), causing the corresponding Access Gateway N_2 port to be disabled. The ports mapped to N_2 (F_1, F_3, and F_4) fail over to N_3 and N_4. Note that the F_Ports are evenly distributed to the remaining online N_Ports and that the F_2 port did not participate in the failover event. Example 1 Hosts Host_1 Access Gateway F_1 Host_2 F_2 N_1 Host_3 F_3 N_2 Host_4 F_4 Host_5 F_5 N_3 Host_6 F_6 N_4 Host_7 F_7 Fabric Edge Switch (Switch_A) F_A1 NPIV enabled F_A2 NPIV enabled Edge Switch (Switch_B) F_B1 NPIV enabled F_B2 NPIV enabled Example 2 Hosts Host_1 Host_2 Host_3 Host_4 Host_5 Host_6 Host_7 Access Gateway F_1 F_2 N_1 F_3 N_2 F_4 F_5 N_3 F_6 N_4 F_7 Fabric Edge Switch (Switch_A) F_A1 NPIV enabled F_A2 NPIV enabled Edge Switch (Switch_B) F_B1 NPIV enabled F_B2 NPIV enabled Host_8 F_8 Host_8 F_8 FIGURE 4 Example 1 and 2 Failover policy behavior Legend Physical connection Mapped online Failover route online Original mapped route (offline) Enabling the Failover policy 1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin. 2. Enter the ag command with the --failovershow operand to display the failover setting. switch:admin> ag --failovershow 13 Failover on N_Port 13 is not supported 3. Enter the ag command with the --failoverenable operand to enable failover. switch:admin> ag --failoverenable 13 Failover policy is enabled for port 13 Access Gateway Administrator's Guide 15 53-1001189-01