292 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
10.2.3 Deployment of new technology and establishment of the
disaster recovery site
Power Transmission Company ZYX decided to set the 1 Gbps switches aside for
use in the development/test environment. Because they plan to extend their Fibre
Channel network to other servers at a later time, they elect to deploy two Cisco
MDS 9509 Multiprotocol Directors at the core of their new network. The company
considered using a single MDS 9216i at the disaster recovery site because it
could use the VSAN feature to provide separate fabric services. In the end, the
company chose to deploy two MDS 9216i multiprotocol switches at the disaster
recovery site.
As part of the technology refresh, ...