SAN Design: March 29, 2001 3:18 pm
FIGURE 14. MUlti Tier SAN Design across an Extended Link
SITE 1
SITE 2
DESIGN: 16 SWITCHES, TWO LOCATIONS; TOTA L PORTS= 212 USING 16 PORT SWITC HES
These links are via DWDM, not shown in diagram.
Depicted in the next diagram is a 20 switch fabric, three tier, with 4 switches at the core. This fabric offers 2 hops from source to destina- tions, with multiple equal cost paths between devices allowing for device failover without a performance lost due to added latency.
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