In Figure 59, the Fibre Channel switches are not connected together. Each switch
forms its own SAN fabric.
Figure 60 on page 90 shows an example of a two-cluster configuration.
DS Storage
subsystem
Host system
with two host
adapters
Host system
with two host
adapters
Switch
Switch
Figure 58. Example of a dual SAN fabric configuration
Host system
with two host
adapters
Host system
with two host
adapters
Switch
Switch
DS5020
DS5020
Figure 59. Example of two storage subsystems in a dual SAN environment
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