Virtual Fabrics
This chapter describes Virtual Fabrics, provides examples of how to implement this feature, and highlights a sample environment where Virtual Fabrics are deployed.
Virtual Fabrics is an architecture to virtualize hardware boundaries. The Virtual Fabrics feature allows storage area network (SAN) design and management to be done at the granularity of a port. It is done by allowing a customer to partition a single physical switch into multiple Logical Switches.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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