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SAN SOLUTIONS New software capabilities support cost-effective SAN island connectivity and SAN extension. INTRODUCING BROCADE MULTIPROTOCOL ROUTING SERVICES

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New software capabilities support cost-effective

SAN island connectivity and SAN extension.

I N T R O D U C I N G B R O C A D E M U LT I P R O T O C O LR O U T I N G S E R V I C E S

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To help organizations maximize the value of their Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Brocade® continues to develop innovative solutions that extend SAN benefits throughout

the enterprise. As part of this effort, Brocade has developed a unique set of multiproto-

col routing services that increase the functionality, scalability, and versatility of today’s

SANs. These new services include:

• Brocade FC-FC Routing Service for SAN connectivity

• Brocade FCIP Tunneling Service for SAN extension over distance

• Brocade iSCSI Gateway Service for sharing Fibre Channel resources with

iSCSI devices

Delivered on the Brocade SilkWorm® Multiprotocol Router, these services provide

new options for connecting SAN islands and extending SAN benefits over multiple

networks, to larger SAN sizes, and across longer distances. A key aspect of this

approach is the unprecedented capability to configure SAN protocols on a port-

by-port basis within the Multiprotocol Router.

Multiprotocol Routing Services Overview

The Brocade multiprotocol routing services include three types of services: the

FC-FC Routing Service for SAN island connectivity, the FCIP Tunneling Service

for distance extension, and the iSCSI Gateway Service for sharing Fibre Channel

resources with iSCSI devices.This document describes FC-FC routing in detail

and provides an overview of the FCIP and iSCSI capabilities.

To better understand these services, it helps to know the general terminology

(a glossary of terms also appears at the end of the paper).The primary purpose of

the services is to provide device connectivity between two or more fabrics without

merging those fabrics.The Multiprotocol Router enables the creation of Logical

Storage Area Networks (LSANs) that connect multiple fabrics without merging

them, thereby providing strategic advantages for change management, network

management, scalability, reliability, availability, and serviceability.

An LSAN is similar to a Virtual Private Network (VPN): it connects different networks

but allows only specific devices on those networks to communicate rather than enabling

unrestricted communication. However, it is most useful to think of an LSAN in terms

of zoning: an LSAN is a zone that spans multiple SAN fabrics.

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The basic requirement for this type of LSAN solution is to create large, flat Fibre

Channel SANs that can continue to grow in a scalable, cost-effective manner. For

example, organizations with many Fibre Channel SAN islands might not want to

merge them, because they would have to contend with domain ID conflicts, zoning

inconsistencies, fabric-wide parameter mismatches, and other challenges. It might

simply be too much administrative work and risk to production services to justify the

benefit of enhanced connectivity. By using FC-to-FC routing, however, organizations

could interconnect devices without having to solve any of those problems, or face

any of those risks. Each SAN island would remain its own Fibre Channel fabric,

known as “an edge fabric” in this context.

It is important to note that edge fabrics retain their own separate fabric services:

nameservers, zoning databases, routing tables, domain ID spaces, and so on.This means,

for example, that one fabric could have a domain ID 1 switch, and another fabric could

also have a domain ID 1 switch.Without the Multiprotocol Router, these fabrics could

not merge until such conflicts were resolved, which could be a time-consuming

and risky process in a production environment.With the Multiprotocol Router,

these conflicts are irrelevant. Moreover, FC-to-FC routing provides additional strategic

advantages (none of which would be true with merged fabrics):

• The scalability of one edge fabric does not affect another.

• Fabric reconfigurations do not propagate across edge fabrics.

• Faults in fabric services are contained.

The resulting routed network would consist of multiple individual fabrics that

nevertheless form one storage network connectivity model.This kind of network is

a level above the traditional definition of a SAN, in which a SAN equals “a fabric”

and a dual-redundant SAN equals “a pair of fabrics.”This higher-level network is

therefore called a “Meta SAN.” Figure 1 illustrates a Meta SAN comprised of two

Fibre Channel routers and n edge fabrics.

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Figure 1. A Meta SAN that includes multiple edge fabrics

Multiprotocol Routers

EX_Portconnections from

FC Routers

Fabric ”n”

Edge Fabrics

Fabric 1

Standard E_Portconnections from “install-

base“ from Brocade switches

Meta SAN

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In the Brocade LSAN model, Multiprotocol Routers connect to the edge fabrics and

export devices between them by using EX_Ports.These ports look just like normal

Brocade E_Ports to the edge fabrics but limit what each edge fabric sees by using Fibre

Channel Network Address Translation (FC-NAT).This is similar to the “hide-behind”

NAT used by most IP firewalls. FC-to-FC routing can use FC-NAT to “hide” an entire

n-domain remote edge fabric behind one translation phantom domain.

An EX_Port can be thought of as being an E_Port “lite” since it appears like a standard

E_Port to the edge fabric.An E_Port-to-EX_Port connection is called an Inter-Fabric

Link (IFL). Unlike an E_Port, an EX_Port terminates at the router and does not propa-

gate fabric services or routing topology information to other edge fabrics. Moreover,

EX_Ports do not switch between themselves except when crossing between different

edge fabrics. Figure 2 shows a pair of devices exported between two fabrics.

Each EX_Port has a user-assigned Fabric Identifier (FID) that specifies the fabric to

which it is attached.Any number of EX_Ports can have the same FID if they attach

to the same edge fabric. In Figure 2, all EX_Ports on all routers connected to Fabric 1

would have FID=1.

In a Meta SAN, a fabric reconfiguration in one edge fabric is not propagated to the

others. Nor is zoning database and fabric topology data propagated, so scalability is

not limited by the sum of all the fabrics’ zoning, routing, or convergence timing limits.

Even nameserver entries are exported between fabrics only for devices that have

been explicitly added to a relevant LSAN for sharing. For example, if Fabric 1 has

a scalability limit of 1024 nameserver entries and currently has 768 devices, and so

does Fabric 2, an administrator could not merge the fabrics. However, the fabrics

could be connected by Multiprotocol Routers and some devices could be shared

between fabrics without reaching the Simple Name Server (SNS) scalability limit.

When a set of devices on different edge fabrics is allowed to communicate through the

Multiprotocol Router, the resulting connectivity group is known as an LSAN, as shown in

Figure 3. Many different LSANs can exist in the Meta SAN, and many different LSANs

can exist between a given pair of edge fabrics. Likewise, devices can be members of multi-

ple LSANs, and LSANs can overlap with traditional zoning mechanisms on local fabrics.

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Figure 2. A pair of devices exportedbetween two edge fabrics

A host exported fromFabric 2 now also appears in the name server on Fabric 1

A storage array portexported from Fabric 1appears in Fabric 2

Fabric ”2”Fabric “1“

Exporting Devices

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Multiprotocol Router Installation

Installing the Multiprotocol Router is a relatively simple process that mirrors the

installation steps of any other Brocade SilkWorm switch, such as configuring an IP

address for management.The appropriate ports must be configured as EX_Ports and

set to the appropriate FIDs using the same tools for traditional switch administrative

tasks:WEB TOOLS, Fabric Manager, the Fabric OS command line interface, and so

on. Configuring each port in this manner is simple enough that relatively junior

SAN administrators can easily install and configure an a Multiprotocol Router.

After the installation, day-to-day administration is performed through zoning on each

edge fabric.This practice enables existing tools from Brocade and many third-party

vendors to work as usual, thereby eliminating the need to extensively retrain SAN

administrators. If a specially named zone (known as an LSAN zone) is created on each

of two fabrics that the Multiprotocol Router can access—and the devices in that zone

are online—the Multiprotocol Router would automatically create FC-NAT entries

between those fabrics.This is all that must be done to create an LSAN, as shown in

Figure 4.

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Figure 3.LSANs spanning multiple fabrics to share devices

Figure 4.Creation of LSAN zones

An LSAN allows connectivitythat spans two or more fabrics

Fabric ”2”

LSAN

Fabric “1“

LSAN

An LSAN is created bybuilding LSAN zones, whichare indistinguishable from

regular zones to edge fabrics

Fabric ”2”Fabric “1“

LSAN Zones

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The Multiprotocol Router obtains the zoning database from each edge fabric and

parses the database for zones with “LSAN_” in the name. (The prefix is case-insensitive,

so “LSAN_” and “lsan_” would be equivalent.) The Multiprotocol Router then com-

pares the WWNs from LSAN zones in each fabric with entries from the other fabrics.

Matching entries define which devices can communicate through the Multiprotocol

Routers across fabrics.As a result, these devices are considered to be in the same LSAN.

The user-defined portion of the LSAN zone name from one fabric does not have to

match the user-defined portion of the LSAN zone name from another fabric for devices

to reside in the same LSAN.

It is important to note that these are real zones in the edge fabrics, and the devices that

exist in these zones are subject to normal zoning enforcement by the switches in each

edge fabric. If the administrator of Fabric 1 does not zone a host with a storage array

from Fabric 2, it doesn’t matter if the Fabric 2 administrator did so.The devices will

be able to communicate only when the zoning policy on both fabrics allows it.

LSAN Administration Models

There are two primary administration models for LSANs: the model in which one

administrator owns the routers and all edge fabrics involved, and the model in which

different administrators own each component.

An administrator who wants to allow connectivity between two fabrics and who has

administrative access to both can accomplish this task by using traditional zoning tools or

by using a single operation through Fabric Manager. Because Fabric Manager can access

both fabrics, it can simultaneously create both LSAN zones.When instructed to create

an LSAN, Fabric Manager determines which fabrics the devices reside in and creates the

appropriate LSAN zones in each fabric.This is known as the “Super Admin” model.

In contrast, if different administrators have access to each fabric, they can create LSAN

zones containing the devices they want to export.This is the “Multi Admin” model.

If a large number of SAN islands will be combined into a very large Meta SAN,

administrators could network Multiprotocol Routers over a centralized backbone

fabric, as shown in Figure 5.

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Figure 5.Networking MultiprotocolRouters over a centralized

backbone fabric

Routers connect tothe backbone withstandard E_Ports

Router domains “talk“across the Backbone

fabric with FCRP

NR_Ports are virtualN_Port devices “attached“

to the router

The Backbone Fabricuses standard E_Portson standard switches

Fabrics 1 through 8

additional edge fabrics

Fabrics 9 through 16

additional backbone fabrics

Backbone Fabric Meta SAN

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A host in Fabric 1 could be exported into Fabric 16 across the backbone fabric, even

though those fabrics are not attached to the same Multiprotocol Router.To accomplish

this, Brocade uses a standards-track Fibre Channel Router Protocol (FCRP) that oper-

ates on backbone-attached E_Ports.The Multiprotocol Router does not use a special

E_Port type (such as an EX_Port) for a router-to-backbone connection. Instead, it uses

a standard Brocade E_Port. Each Multiprotocol Router on the backbone fabric can

“see” that other routers have entered that fabric, and can send FCRP messages from its

domain address to the other routers’ domain addresses. FCRP also operates between

domains projected by EX_Ports into an edge fabric. In addition to these routing tasks,

FCRP handles coordination between domains, exchanging LSAN zone information as

well as device and fabric state information.

Each Multiprotocol Router also projects special virtual N_Ports (known as NR_Ports)

onto the backbone fabric. NR_Ports serve as sources and destinations for data frames

sent across the backbone.They are similar to router ports in IP networks and can be

thought of as “the back side of an EX_Port.”They are discovered via FCRP and do

not exist in the nameserver of the backbone fabric.

Data frames sent between NR_Ports use an encapsulated “global header” that contains

items such as the source and destination fabric IDs, so that a receiving router knows the

true origin and destination of a frame.This process is transparent to switches in the

backbone fabric.

Deployment Examples

To help illustrate the Brocade multiprotocol routing services, this section contains

deployment examples of possible solutions. However, this section does not represent

a comprehensive list of all possible applications of the Multiprotocol Router.

Basic Resilient Meta SAN

The defining characteristic of a resilient SAN is that there is no single point of failure

within the core-to-edge connectivity model. Each Inter-Switch Link (ISL) has one

or more alternate paths, and each core switch is likewise duplicated. It is possible to lose

an edge switch, but critical nodes are always connected to at least two edge switches.

In a resilient Meta SAN, each edge fabric that exports devices must have at least two

Multiprotocol Routers providing paths to every other relevant edge fabric. Nodes

would generally be connected to A/B fabrics within this model, as shown in Figure 6.S

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Fabric 1 (A) Fabric 2 (B) Fabric 3 (A) Fabric 4 (B)

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Basic Dual-Redundant Meta SAN

A fully redundant SAN duplicates the entire connectivity model: a dual-redundant SAN

fabric has two completely separate fabrics. Similarly, a dual-redundant Meta SAN has

two completely separate (A/B) Meta SANs (see Figure 7). Hosts and storage arrays are

dual-attached, with at least one connection to each Meta SAN.This provides the great-

est possible fault isolation, such as preventing a misbehaving Host Bus Adapter (HBA)

on one Meta SAN from interfering with nodes on the other.

Tape Consolidation Meta SAN

One key FC-to-FC routing application is centralizing backup and restore resources

across SAN islands. In this example, 30 isolated fabrics can share a central tape pool

consisting of two large backup and restore fabrics, as shown in Figure 8.

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Fabric 1A Fabric 2A Fabric 1B Fabric 2B

Meta SAN A Meta SAN B

Figure 7.A dual-redundant Meta SANwith enhanced fault isolation

Dual-Redundant Meta SAN

Fabric 1Fabric 30

Fabric 31Fabric 32

Distributed Host and Storage Edge Fabrics

Centralized Backup and Restore Edge Fabrics

Figure 8.A centralized tape pool

shared across SAN islands

Tape Consolidation Meta SAN

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SAN Island Consolidation Meta SAN

In many environments, even if SAN islands could be merged without crossing

fabric scalability limits, the process of doing so would be too difficult and risky to

be considered. In contrast, FC-to-FC routing enables the connection of SAN islands

without needing to resolve domain conflicts, rework zoning configurations, or resolve

fabric-wide parameter conflicts such as Timeout Value (TOV) and Port ID (PID)

formats (see Figure 9).

Distance Extension Meta SAN (FC-to-FC Routing and FCIP)

In another example, an organization might have separate A/B fabric pairs for disaster-

tolerant production environments in distinct geographical locations, and a separate fabric

for pre-production.This implementation does not provide optimal sharing of resources

since there is no connectivity between fabrics unless hosts and storage arrays have five

network connections each.This implementation also requires the use and management

of expensive external FCIP gateways (see Figure 10).

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Figure 9.SAN island consolidation in a Meta SAN

Fabric ID = 1PID format = 1

Domain IDs = 1, 2, 3, 4

Fabric ID = 4PID format = 0

Domain IDs = 1, 2

Each fabric can have itsown set of domain IDs, itsown zoning, its own PID format,its own TOVs, etc.

This example shows many small fabrics which could be merged from a scalability standpoint, but not without making many changes to resolve conflicts.

Fabric ID = 15PID format = 0

Domain IDs = 1, 6, 8, 9

Fabric ID = 19PID format = 1

Domain IDs = 1, 2

Island Consolidation Meta SAN

Figure 10.SAN distance extension overFCIP without FC-to-FC routingProduction A

Disaster-Tolerant A

Disaster-TolerantNodes

Disaster-Tolerant B

Hosts and storage involved in Disaster-Tolerant and pre-production operaions in any way need five HBAs

Unreliable WAN links can create instability for all Disaster-Tolerant fabrics

Production B

Pre-Production

Dedicated Pre-Production Nodes

IP WAN

Disaster-Tolerant Without FC-to-FC routing

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In contrast, the implementation of a dual-redundant Meta SAN enables fault isolation

between each fabric, retaining the fully redundant model but allowing connectivity

as needed. Hosts and storage can communicate across all fabrics but need only two

HBAs for fully redundant operation.There are still five fabrics, but the LSAN switches

allow cross-fabric communication (see Figure 11).

Integrated FCIP capabilities simplify management and eliminate cost and potential fail-

ures caused by external WAN tunneling equipment. Because the Multiprotocol Routers

are running FC-to-FC routing, the WAN forms a completely redundant and isolated

pair of backbone fabrics.This capability increases fault isolation in the WAN: IP instabili-

ty is no longer translated into edge fabric reconfigurations.A similar design would also

work with external gateways for SONET,ATM, or other third-party solutions.

Service Provider Meta SAN

In the example of a service provider model, the provider might have a central set of

resources that are “projected” as needed into fabrics owned and managed by its cus-

tomers. No customer could access any other customer’s fabric without permission.

Nor could any customer access resources on the service provider’s fabric without

permission.As a result, the appropriate group could autonomously manage each

fabric without faults in one section impacting any other section (see Figure 12).

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Figure 11.SAN distance extension

with FC-to-FC routingProduction A

Backbone A

Disaster-Tolerant A

Disaster-Tolerant B Disaster-TolerantNodes

Backbone B

Production B

Pre-Production

IP WAN

Disaster-Tolerant With FC-to-FC routing

Figure 12.A Meta SAN in a service

provider environment

Fabric 31

Customer A Customer B Customer C Customer D

IP WAN

The IP WAN is really one or more tunnelledbackbone fabrics. It could also be a nativeFibre Channel network, or use other gatewayssuch as SONET.

Service Provider Meta SAN

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iSCSI Gateway Service Overview

The Brocade iSCSI Gateway Service enables organizations to integrate low-cost

Ethernet-connected servers into their Brocade Fibre Channel SANs via the iSCSI

protocol.This practice facilitates storage consolidation and improves management of

applications such as centralized backup in cases where hosts do not need the perform-

ance or reliability of Fibre Channel but could benefit from the management simplicity

and “white space optimization” of a SAN infrastructure.This type of integration reduces

the cost of connecting a low-tier server to centrally managed storage within a SAN.

Organizations that use this service would not typically attach iSCSI hosts directly to

gateway ports. Direct attachment of an iSCSI TCP Offload Engine (TOE) adapter to

an iSCSI gateway is less cost-effective than using a Fibre Channel HBA. Instead, there

would be an external fan-out using existing Ethernet infrastructure.

When an iSCSI host accesses the service, it is projected onto the backbone fabric of

the router and can then communicate with any storage device in that fabric.

FCIP Tunneling Service Overview

The Brocade FCIP Tunneling Service enables organizations to extend their Fibre

Channel SANs over longer distances that would be impractical with native Fibre

Channel links, or situations where dark fiber links would be impractical but in

which IP WANs already exist.

This service offers two important advantages.The first advantage is full integration with

the switch. It is easier and more cost-effective to deploy and manage an FCIP link inte-

grated into the switch as opposed to one that requires an external gateway. In addition

to easier management, tighter integration means lower cost and a smaller rack footprint.

The second advantage is integration with FC-to-FC routing. It is possible to have a

Multiprotocol Router in which a port is both an E_Port into the backbone fabric and

an FCIP-to-FCIP port.This prevents faults on the WAN link from turning into Meta

SAN-wide events.This is a key advantage, because IP networks in general and WANs in

particular are less reliable than Fibre Channel networks.A “flapping”WAN link might

disturb the backbone fabric, but these disturbances are isolated from all edge fabrics so

no host/storage “conversations” would be affected other than those that actually crossed

the unreliable WAN.

This service will initially be most useful for campus networks and WANs that have

full-bandwidth links. In addition, Brocade plans to continue partnering with CNT

for enterprise-class FCIP-to-FCIP distance extension solutions, and with other leading

vendors such as Alcatel and Nortel for other WAN protocols.

For More Information

For more information about the Brocade SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router and

Brocade Multiprotocol SAN Routing Services, visit www.brocade.com.

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Glossary of Terms

Backbone Fabric: A capability that enables scalable Meta SANs by allowing the net-

working of multiple Multiprotocol Routers that connect to the backbone fabric via

E_Port interfaces. Devices attached to Multiprotocol Routers via F_Port or FL_Port,

or imported via the iSCSI Gateway Service, are also considered part of the backbone.

E_Port: A standard Fibre Channel mechanism that enables switches to network with

each other.

Edge Fabric: A Fibre Channel fabric connected to a Multiprotocol Router via one or

more EX_Ports.This is where hosts and storage are typically attached in a Meta SAN.

EX_Port: The type of E_Port used to connect a Multiprotocol Router to an edge

fabric. An EX_Port follows standard E_Port protocols and supports FC-NAT but

does not allow fabric merging across EX_Ports.

Exported Device: A device that has been mapped between fabrics.A host or storage

port in one edge fabric can be exported to any other fabric through LSAN zoning.

Fabric: A collection of Fibre Channel switches and devices, such as hosts and storage.

Fabric ID (FID): Unique identifier of a fabric in a Meta SAN.

FCIP Tunneling Service: A service that enables SANs to span longer distances than

could be supported with native Fibre Channel links. FCIP is a TCP/IP-based tunneling

protocol that allows the transparent interconnection of geographically distributed SAN

islands through an IP-based network.

Fibre Channel: The primary protocol for building SANs. Unlike IP and Ethernet,

Fibre Channel is designed to support the needs of storage devices of all types.

Fibre Channel Network Address Translation (FC-NAT): A capability that allows

devices in different fabrics to communicate when those fabrics have addressing conflicts.

This is similar to the “hide-behind” NAT used in firewalls.

Fibre Channel Router Protocol (FCRP): A Brocade-authored standards-track

protocol that enables LSAN switches to perform routing between different edge

fabrics, optionally across a backbone fabric.

FC-FC Routing Service: A service that extends hierarchical networking capabilities

to Fibre Channel fabrics. It enables devices located on separate fabrics to communicate

without merging the fabrics. It also enables the creation of LSANs.

Inter-Fabric Link (IFL): A connection between a router and an edge fabric.

Architecturally, these can be of type EX_Port-to-E_Port or EX_Port-to-EX_Port.

The former method is supported in the first release.

iSCSI Gateway Service: A service that maps the SCSI protocol to the IP transport.

This service projects iSCSI hosts onto the backbone fabric of a gateway switch.

Logical Storage Area Network (LSAN): A logical network that spans multiple fabrics.

The path between devices in an LSAN can be local to an edge fabric or cross one or

more Multiprotocol Routers and up to one intermediate backbone fabric. LSANs are

administered through LSAN zones in each edge fabric.

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LSAN Zone: The mechanism by which LSANs are administered.A Multiprotocol

Router attached to two fabrics will “listen” for the creation of matching LSAN zones

on both fabrics. If this occurs, it will create phantom domains and FC-NAT entries

as appropriate, and insert entries for them into the nameservers on the fabrics. LSAN

zones are compatible with standard zoning mechanisms.

Meta SAN: The collection of all devices, switches, edge and backbone fabrics, LSANs,

and Multiprotocol Routers that make up a physically connected but logically parti-

tioned storage network. In a data network, this would simply be called “the network.”

However, an additional term is required to specify the difference between a single-fabric

network (“SAN”), a multifabric network without cross-fabric connectivity (for example,

a “dual-redundant fabric SAN”), and a multifabric network with connectivity

(“Meta SAN”).

Multiprotocol Router: A device that enables the Brocade multiprotocol routing services.

Multiprotocol routing services: An optionally licensed software bundle available on

certain Brocade platforms, such as the Multiprotocol Router, that includes the FC-FC

Routing Service, the iSCSI Gateway Service, and the FCIP Tunneling Service.

NR_Port: A port used as a source and destination address for frames traversing a back-

bone fabric.A normal E_Port (not an EX_Port) is used to connect a Multiprotocol

Router to a backbone.An NR_Port appears to the rest of the backbone as a standard

N_Port connected to the Multiprotocol Router domain.

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