HP StorageWorks 8/40 Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v6.3.0 (53-100133 - Page 21
Managing Long Distance Fabrics, Using the FC-FC Routing Service
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Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 53-1001336-01 F_Port masterless trunking 437 F_Port masterless trunking considerations 439 Assigning a Trunk Area 441 Enabling the DCC policy on a Trunk Area 442 Managing Long Distance Fabrics In this chapter 445 Long distance fabrics overview 445 Extended Fabrics device limitations 446 Long distance link modes 446 Configuring an extended ISL 447 Enabling long distance when connecting to TDM devices . . .448 Buffer credit management 449 Buffer-to-Buffer flow control 449 Optimal buffer credit allocation 450 Fibre Channel gigabit values reference definition 451 Allocating buffer credits based on full-size frames 451 Allocating buffer credits based on average-size frames . . . . .453 Allocating buffer credits for F_Ports 454 Displaying the remaining buffers in a port group 454 Buffer credits for each switch model 455 Maximum configurable distances for Extended Fabrics . . . . .456 Buffer credit recovery 457 Using the FC-FC Routing Service In this chapter 459 FC-FC routing service overview 459 Supported platforms for Fibre Channel routing 460 Supported configurations 460 Integrated Routing 461 Fibre Channel routing concepts 461 Proxy devices 465 Routing types 465 Phantom domains 466 Setting up the FC-FC routing service 468 Verifying the setup for FC-FC routing 468 Backbone fabric IDs 470 Assigning backbone fabric IDs 471 FCIP tunnel configuration 471 Interfabric link configuration 472 Configuring an IFL for both edge and backbone connections 472 FC Router port cost configuration 476 Port cost considerations 476 Setting router port cost for an EX_Port 477 xxi