300 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
11.1 FCP and the Cisco MDS 9000 products
In this chapter, we perform the basic switch setup and install the Fabric Manager
(FM) client and Device Manager (DM) client on our workstation. If you already
have the Fabric Manager client code on your workstation, and you completed the
basic switch setup, you may skip 11.2, “Initial setup of the Cisco MDS 9000
products” on page 305.
11.1.1 Port addressing and port modes
The Fibre Channel ports in the Cisco MDS 9000 family are addressed with
addresses in the form of fc<slot>/<port>, where <slot> is the slot number of the
line card (1-9), and <port> is the port number on the line card (1-32). For
example, the first port of the line card ...