You must configure each of the Brocade switch fabrics in the MetroCluster configuration.
Before you begin
- You must have a PC or UNIX workstation with Telnet or SSH access to the FC switches.
- You must be using four supported Brocade switches of the same model with the same Brocade Fabric Operating System (FOS) version and licensing.
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- You must have four switches; the MetroCluster configuration requires four switches.
The four switches must be connected to two fabrics of two switches each, with each fabric spanning both sites.
- Two initiator ports must be connected from each storage controller to each fabric.
Each storage controller must have four initiator ports available to connect to the switch fabrics.
About this task
- ISL trunking is supported.
- ISLs should have the same length and same speed ISLs in one fabric. Different lengths and speeds can be used in the different fabrics.
- Metro-E and TDM (SONET/SDH) are not supported. Any non-FC native framing or signaling is not supported.
Metro-E means Ethernet framing/signaling either natively over a Metro distance or through some TDM, MPLS or WDM.
- TDMs, FCR (native FC Routing) or FCIP extensions are not supported for the MetroCluster FC switch fabric.
- Third-party encryption devices are not supported on any link in the MetroCluster FC switch fabric, including the ISL links across the WAN.
- Certain switches in the MetroCluster FC switch fabric support encryption or compression, and sometimes support both.
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- The Brocade Virtual Fabric (VF) feature is not supported.
