McDATA 3000 manual Preface, Organization

Preface

This guide provides information for those who are involved in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the UltraNet Edge Storage Router - 3000 Series. Throughout the remainder of this User Guide, the UltraNet Edge Storage Router - 3000 Series is referred to as the “UltraNet Edge 3000”.

Document This guide is organized as follows:

Organization

Chapter 1, Introduction, introduces the UltraNet Edge Storage Router - 3000 Series (“UltraNet Edge 3000”), providing an overview of its functionality, features, benefits, and security information.

Chapter 2, Hardware Configurations, provides the valid hardware configurations possible with the new customizable UltraNet Edge 3000 features.

Chapter 3, Network Design Criteria, provides the basic criteria you will need to design and configure your Ethernet or ATM network. It also provides information on the network routing options for the UltraNet Edge 3000, the Switch WWN Proxy software enhancement, E_port Disk Streaming network recommendations, Fibre Channel Frame Level and End to End CRC, as well as MTU Batching.

Chapter 4, Building a Custom Edge 3000 Chassis, provides the configuration procedure for a custom UltraNet Edge 3000 chassis using the UltraNet ConfigManager Custom Chassis Wizard.

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