Chapter 20 Configuring And Managing Vsan - Cisco AP776A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5020 Configuration Manual

About VSANs
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The switch icons shown in both
switch in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.
Figure 20-1
switches and the attached devices is independent of their segmentation into logical VSANs. No
communication between VSANs is possible. Within each VSAN, all members can talk to one another.
Figure 20-1
Switch 1
Switch 2
Switch 3
Figure 20-2
2 (dashed) and VSAN 7 (solid). VSAN 2 includes hosts H1 and H2, application servers AS2 and AS3,
and storage arrays SA1 and SA4. VSAN 7 connects H3, AS1, SA2, and SA3.
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Fabric-related configurations in one VSAN do not affect the associated traffic in another VSAN.
Events causing traffic disruptions in one VSAN are contained within that VSAN and are not
propagated to other VSANs.
shows a fabric with three switches, one on each floor. The geographic location of the
Logical VSAN Segmentation
Engineering
VSAN
shows a physical Fibre Channel switching infrastructure with two defined VSANs: VSAN
Figure 20-1 and Figure 20-2
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VSAN VSAN
Chapter 20 Configuring and Managing VSANs
indicate that these features apply to any
Floor 3
Floor 2
Floor 1
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