In Figure 68, the fibre channel switches are not connected together. Each switch
forms its own SAN fabric.
Figure 69 on page 96 gives an example of one DS4800 and four host systems
configured into two clusters; each cluster comprised of two host systems and two
fibre channel switches.
Host system
with two host
adapters
Host system
with two host
adapters
Switch
Switch
Interswitch link
ds48003
DS4800
Figure 67. Example of a single SAN fabric configuration
Host system
with two host
adapters
Host system
with two host
adapters
Switch
Switch
DS4800
DS4800
ds48002
Figure 68. Example of two storage subsystems in a dual SAN environment
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