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SN8000B - Virtual Fabric / Logical Switch inter-Communications

 
Steven Clementi
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SN8000B - Virtual Fabric / Logical Switch inter-Communications

Customer has multiple physical fabrics and wants to collapse to a single director class switch for all of the "A" fabrics and a secon for all of the "B" fabrics.

Current set up has 1 common set of fabrics for backup purposes where the backup servers sit along with a single connection from each storage array for each of the other separate fabrics.  The remaining storage connections are to separate fabrics which include host access. (Basic physically isolated multi-tennant environment)

When setting up Virtual Fabrics / Logical Switches, can a zone be created to allow the backup servers in one logical switch/virtual fabric to talk to the storage arrays in a different logical switch/virtual fabric without the need to connect the storage to the same logical switch/virtual fabric as the backup servers?

C-Series Switches has, or at least used to have inter-vsan routing to accomodate this.  Is the Director Integrated Routing for B-Series the same thing?  If not, is the switch capable of this with just the base license?

 

Steven Clementi
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