Grass Valley Fibre Channel Switch User Manual v.5.8

Fibre Channel Switch

PROFILE XP MEDIA PLATFORM

Installation Manual

SOFTWARE VERSION 5.8

071-8520-00
JULY 2006

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July 15, 2006 Brocade Fibre Channel switch manual for the 4Gig Silkworm 200E.

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Contents

Grass Valley Product Support........................................................................5

Welcome .................................................................................................................7

Support for Your Fibre Channel Switch..............................................................7

Installing a Switch in a Profile Video Network.........................................................8

Profile System Software Requirements..............................................................8

Configuring Your Fibre Channel Switch..................................................................9

Connecting Devices to the Switch......................................................................9

Monitoring your Brocade Fibre Channel Switch......................................................12

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Contents

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Grass Valley Product Support

To get technical as sista nce , check on the stat us of pro blems, or repor t new p roble ms,
contact Grass Valley Product Support via e-mail, the Web, or by phone or fax.

Web Technical Support

To access support in formation on t he Web, visit the pro duct support Web p age on the
Grass Valley Web site. You can download software or fi nd sol ut ion s t o pr oblems by
searching our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) database.

World Wide Web: http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/support/
Technical Support E-mail Address: [e-mail].

Phone Support

Use the following information to contact product support by phone during business
hours. After-hours phone support is available for warranty and contract customers.

United States [phone] (Toll Free) France [phone]
Latin America [phone] ( Toll Free) Germany [phone]
Eastern Europe [phone] Greece [phone]
Southern Europe [phone] Hong Kong [phone]
Middle East [phone] Italy [phone]
Australia [phone] Netherlands [phone]
Belgium [phone] Poland [phone]
Brazil [phone] Russia [phone]
Canada [phone] (Toll Free) Singapore [phone]
China [phone] Spain + 34 91 512 03 50
Denmark [phone] Sweden [phone]
Dubai + 971 4 299 64 40 Switzerland [phone]
Finland [phone] UK [phone]

Authorized Support Representative

A local authorized support re presentativ e may be avail able in your country. To loc ate
the support repr esentative for your country, vi sit the product support Web pag e on the
Grass Valley Web site.

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Grass Valley Product Support

Grass Valley’s innovation and excellence in product design also extends to the programs we’ve established to
manage the recycling of our products. Grass Valley has developed a comprehensive end-of-life product take back
program for recycle or disposal of end-of-life products. Our program meets the requirements of the European
Union’s WEEE Directive and in the United States from the Environmental Protection Agency, individual state or
local agencies.

Grass Valley’s end-of-life product take back program assures proper disposal by use of Best Available Technology.
This program accepts any Grass Valley branded equipment. Upon request, a Certificate of Recycling or a Certificate
of Destruction, depending on the ultimate disposition of the product, can be sent to the requester.

Grass Valley will be responsible for all costs associated with recycling and disposal, including freight, however you
are responsible for the removal of the equipment from your facility and packing the equipment ready for pickup.

For further information on the Grass Valley product take back system please contact Grass Valley at
800-547-8949 or 530-478-4148 and ask to be connected to the EH&S Department. In addition,
information concerning the program can be found at: www.thomsongrassvalley.com/environment

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Welcome

You can use your 8- or 16- port Brocade 4 Gbit/s SilkWorm 200E Fibre Channel
switch (fabric OS 5.0.1 or higher) to create fabrics for Grass Valley Profile Video
Network systems (Internet Protocol only).

The Brocade SilkWorm 200E Hardware Reference Manual is your pr imary refe rence
on the installation and initial setup of the SilkWorm 200E switch. The Grass V alley
Fibre Channel Switch I ns tal lation Manual supplement s the information prov ide d by
the Brocade SilkWorm documentation. It describes how to configure the SilkWorm
200E switch for use with Profile XP s ervers and provides general informa tion on
using a switch in a Profile Video Network system.

Support for Your Fibre Channel Switch

Your Brocade 200E SilkWorm Switch is sold, supported, and serviced by Grass
Valley.

If you have any qu estions about y our Brocad e 200E SilkWorm Swi tch, or if you need
any help or service for the switch, please contact your local Grass Valley Support
representative listed at the front of this manual

Welcome

NOTE: Do not con tact Brocade directl y for support of your Brocade 200E Si lkWorm
Switch.

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Installing a Switch in a Profile Video Network

Compared to a Fibre Channel hu b, th e Fibre Channel 4 Gbit /sec swit ch improv es the
performance of your Video Network by:

• Increasing the bandwidth between any two Fibre Channel devices by eliminating
the shared bandwidth required by a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop.

• Improving the scal abi li ty of your Video Network. By managing your int er -s wit ch
connections, you can increase the size of your network without the shared
bandwidth concerns of a large loop.

• Providing optional multicast capability, which lets you move material to several
machines at once, rath er than with several individual transfers.

Figure 0-1 shows the Profile Fibre Channel switch in a simple fabric environment.

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Figure 0-1. The Profile XP Fibre Channel 4 Gbit/sec Switch

Profile System Software Requirements

All Profile XP System Software versions fully support the Profile Fibre Channel
Switch. Be sure to read th e Profile XP Release Notes to learn about any new
requirements.

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

All versions of Profile XP Fibre Channel boards have the required firmware for
operation with the Profile Fi bre Channel Swi tch. You do not ne ed to cha nge the Fibre
Channel firmware or drivers on Prof ile XP systems.

Bear in mind the following considerations when setting up your Brocade switch for
use with Profile systems:

• You do not need to set the Fibre Channel hardware address of Profile systems

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Configuring Your Fibre Channel Switch

connected to the Fibre Chann el switch. Thes e addres ses are assigned dynamical ly
in a fabric environment .

• The Brocade SilkWorm 200E s witch is o nly compati ble with t he Profil e XP series

of servers. However, you can use it in a net wor k wi th other Brocade switches t h at
connect to PDR servers.

The sections that follow describe the installation and use of the Brocade SilkWorm
Switch in a Profile Video Network environment.

Topics include:

• Configuring the Brocade SilkWorm 200E for the Profile system

• Avoiding loop configurations in a fabric (switched) environment.

Configuring Your Fibre Channel Switch

Your Brocade 200E SilkWorm Switch will operate correctly in your Fibre Channel
fabric environment using the default settings with the following exceptions:

1. Set IP address, subnet mask, default gateway.

NOTE: Never set the FC IP address . The setti ng should alway s be 0.0.0.0 for the FC
IP address.

2. Set the domain for your site.

NOTE: Each Brocade 2 00E Silk Worm Swi tch must hav e a u nique Domai nID for the
local fabric. You should specify these values individually for each switch and not
allowing the switches to sel ect their own DomainID values . Setting DomainIDLock to
True prevents t he switch from changing the DomainID when a new switch is added to
fabric.

3. Set Sequence Level Switching (Non-SCSI Tachyon Mode) to

4. Change the VC Priorities settings 6 and 7 from
Refer to the SilkWorm Hardware Reference Manual for inst ructions on ho w to make

these settings.

Connecting Devices to the Switch

Follow the instructio ns in the SilkWorm Hardware Refere nce Manual to connect yo ur
Profile systems and other devices to the Fibre Channel switch. You should also take
note of the following guidelines when setting up your fabric environment.

Cable Lengths

Use the appropriate cable types and SFP (Small Form Pluggable) for the length of
your Fibre Channel connections. The Brocade SilkWorm 200E requires the use of
fiber-optic cable.

1.

3 to 2.

NOTE: Profile Fibre Channel cables sold for use with Fibre Channel hubs do not
have the required c onnectors f or use wit h the Fibre Channel swit ch. You must ob tain
cables appropriate for use with the switch.

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Single-Switch Fabric

Figure 0-2 shows a basic Fibre Channel fabric, in which up to eight devices are
connected to the swi tch. Eac h device sends a nd recei ves onl y the da ta that is sp eci fic
to that device. Each device benefits from a dedicated con nection, which allows for the
full Fibre Channel bandwidth to each device.

NOTE: As shown in Figure 0-2, you must not connect a Fibre Channel Arbitrated
Loop to a Fibre Channel Switch por t. Grass Valley does not support loops i n a fabric
environment.

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Fibre Channel Loop

(not suppor

ted)

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media PlatformProfile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Profile XP Media Platform

Figure 0-2. Single-switch fabric with no loops attached

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Multi-Switch Fabric

If you need to conn ect more than sixteen Fi bre Channel devices together in your v ideo
network, you must use more than one switch to make your connections. When
increasing the size of your fabric, you should follow some basic rules:

• You should ensure that you have at least two inter-switch connections from each

switch. This provides:

• Redundant paths between switches.

• The ability to balance loads over several connections.

• Increasing the number of inter-switch connections will increase the bandwidth

between the switches, and thus between devices connected to different switches.

Figure 0-3 illustrates a fabric comprising two Fibre Channel switches. Note the two
connections between the switches.

Figure 0-4 shows three switches connected together. Note that each switch is
connected to two oth er switches. Yo u do not need two c onnections be tween each pair
of switches, as the failure of any one connection will still provide an alternate
connection over another route.

Adding more inter-switch connections will increase the redundancy and bandwidth
capability, but it will reduce the total number of devices which you can connect to
each switch.

Connecting Devices to the Switch

0564-4

Figure 0-3. A sample two-switch fabric

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0564-4

Figure 0-4. A sample three-switch fabric

Monitoring your Brocade Fibre Channel Switch

You can use NetCentral, a Grass Valley SNMP Manager , to monitor the state of your
Fibre Channel switch. The informati on presented in NetCentral allows you to verify
the normal operat ion of your switch an d to detect any problems that may occur. If you
set one or more appropri ate SNMP trap destinati on addresses on your s witch, you can
also be alerted immediately when problems occur on the switch.

If you are using NetCentr al to monitor your Brocade 20 0E SilkWorm Switch, you can
access online help from the NetCentral interface. For general help with NetCentral
manager, select

For help specific to monitoring Brocade 200E SilkWorm Switch system devices,

Help | Device Providers and then select the monitored device.

select
For more information on NetCentral, see the NetCentral User Guide.

Help | NetCentral Help Topics.

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