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Virtual Fabrics

Virtual Fabrics is an architecture to virtualize hardware boundaries. Traditionally, SAN design and management is done at the granularity of a physical switch. The Virtual Fabrics feature allows SAN design and management to be done at the granularity of a port.

In this chapter we discuss Virtual Fabrics and provide examples of how to implement this feature.

11.1 IBM/Brocade Virtual Fabric

In this section we explain what the IBM/Brocade Virtual Fabrics feature is, and how it is configured to an operational state in a live environment. ...

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