HP 8.20q Fibre Channel Switch - Manual (Page 47)

HP SAN Connection Manager User Guide 47
5 Managing Switches
This chapter provides the procedures for using SAN Connection Manager to view and manage your
SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch or 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch.
About transparent routing
The transparent routing feature provides inter-fabric routing to enable controlled and limited access
between devices on an SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch or 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch (local) fabric and
devices on a remote fabric consisting of switches made by other vendors. For a list of switches that are
supported in a remote fabric, see the HP SAN Design Reference Guide located at the HP website:
http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide . This type of inter-fabric connection uses the Fibre Channel
industry N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), and makes local and remote devices accessible to each other
while maintaining the local and remote fabrics as separate fabrics.
Transparent routing configuration consists of connecting the local fabric over one or more TR_Ports to the
remote fabric, and then creating IFZs by which you map the local devices to the remote devices. To
complete the configuration and make it active, you must activate the same IFZs on both the local fabric and
the remote fabric.
SAN Connection Manager displays, on the Physical Connection map (see page 41), the remote fabric as
an unavailable switch, which represents one or more HP B-series or C-series switches and their connected
devices. However, SAN Connection Manager cannot be used to manage the remote fabric or to configure
transparent routing. To configure transparent routing, use the SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch or 8/20q
Fibre Channel Switch QuickTools web applet as described in the HP 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch
QuickTools Switch Management User Guide or the HP SN6000 Fibre Channel Switch QuickTools Switch
Management User Guide.
Viewing switch properties
SAN Connection Manager provides a quick and easy way to view properties related to switches within
your SAN.