McDATA 3000 manual Internal Fibre Channel Switch Fcsw, Hardware Components

Internal Fibre Channel Switch (FCSW)

Internal Fibre Channel Switch (FCSW)

The FCSW application resides in the data path stack between the Fibre Channel device driver (FCCNT) and the WAN network provider. This allows the FCSW to operate as a switch, determining which destination to forward a frame to. The FCSW passes Fibre Channel frames to/from the FCCNT driver. For Fibre Channel frames destined to the switch itself or one of its services, the frame is routed to the appropriate entity and the proper response is given.

Batching is only allowed if the destination id is not the same as the source id and all the frames in the batch are for the same destination id. At this time, two ports are supported by the FCSW.

See Chapter 13, Troubleshooting and Diagnostics, for information about the FCSW application user interface commands through which information and status can be obtained.

Hardware Components

The UltraNet Edge 3000 consists of a chassis and the components listed in Table 2-8, these components are illustrated in Figure 2-2 and Figure 2-3.

Table 2-8Hardware Components

Description

I/O cards (4 maximum)

•Fibre Channel (FCBB

or FCXL2 for FC/SCSI Tape Pipelining)

•Ethernet 10/100

•Gigabit Ethernet

•OC-3 ATM

Fan assemblies (4)

Power supply

Redundant power supply

Hardware Configurations 2-11

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