Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v12.3.0 - Manual (Page 721)

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Chapter
18
FC-FC Routing Service Management
In this chapter
• Devices that support Fibre Channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
• Fibre Channel routing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
• Guidelines for setting up Fibre Channel routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
• Connecting edge fabrics to a backbone fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
• Configuring routing domain IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Devices that support Fibre Channel routing
The FC-FC Routing Service is supported only on the following devices:
• 40-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch
• 80-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch
• 24-port, 16 Gbps Edge Switch
• 48-port, 16 Gbps FC Switch
• 4 Gbps Router, Extension Switch
• 8 Gbps Extension Switch
• Any of the following blades on a Director chassis:
- 4 Gbps Router, Extension Blade
- FC 8 GB 16-port Blade
- FC 8 GB 32-port Blade
- FC 8 GB 48-port Blade - The shared ports area (ports 16-47) cannot be used as EX_Ports.
- 8 Gbps Extension Blade