284 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
10.1 University ZYX
University ZYX, a fictional university, provides teaching and research services to
30,000 students across 10 faculties: arts, business, architecture, fine arts,
education, engineering, law, medicine, science, and theology. In addition, there
are 20 interdisciplinary research clusters focused on emerging fields.
The example that follows departs from best practice in some ways. Based on a
history of no Fibre Channel switch failures over four years, and to save costs, the
client decides that having dual physical fabrics is not important at their disaster
recovery (DR) and engineering sites, especially given the capability to create
VSANs each with their own f ...