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McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual

Configuration Planning Tasks

Task 1: Prepare a Site Plan

For each director, fabric switch, SAN router, or FC-512 Fabricenter

equipment cabinet installed, design a site plan that provides efficient

work flow, operator convenience and safety, and adequate service

clearances for the equipment cabinet. A customer manager should

review the site plan with a service representative and consider:

• Location and relationship of the physical facilities such as walls,

doors, windows, partitions, furniture, and telephones.

• Proximity of the director, fabric switch, or SAN router to servers

and storage peripherals, and if a multiswitch fabric is to be

enabled, proximity of participating fabric elements to each other.

• Location of at least one analog phone line (capable of providing

long-distance service) for the management server to support the

call-home feature or provide remote dial-in support. In addition,

consider accessibility to a second phone to aid in installation and

serviceability.

• Availability of Ethernet local area network (LAN) connections

and cabling to support remote user workstation and simple

network management protocol (SNMP) management station

access. Remote user and SNMP workstations are optional.

• Equipment cabinet locations, Ethernet cabling, and the Internet

protocol (IP) addressing scheme to support optional cabinet

interconnection and management server consolidation.

Task 13: Complete the Planning Worksheet 6-14

Task 14: Plan AC Power 6-28

Task 15: Plan a Multiswitch Fabric (Optional) 6-29

Task 16: Plan Zone Sets for Multiple Products (Optional) 6-30

Task 17: Plan SAN Routing (Optional) 6-31

Task 18: Complete Planning Checklists 6-34

Table 6-1 Configuration Planning Tasks (continued)

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