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Posted on October 6, 2014 by Tomek

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(domains). One Fibre Channel Switch = one Fabric Domain.
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Addressing architecture part
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All devices in Fibre Channel network have an identity. NetApp Data

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Worldwide name (WWN) ONTAP storage


architecture part
1
All FC devices have a unique identity that is called a
worldwide name (WWN). This identification can be
compared with Ethernet cards and MAC addresses. Each
Node Port has its own WWN, but it is also possible for a
device with more than one Fibre Channel adapted to have
its own WWN as well. WWN is 64-bit address, and if two
WWN addresses are put into the frame header, this leave
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16 bytes of data just for identyfying the destination and
source address. So 64-bit addresses can affect routing
brocade cdot
performance. Each device in the SAN is identified by a
DAE Data Center data
unique WWN. The WWN contains vendor identifier field,
mover data protection
which is defined and maintened by the IEEE.
Disaster
Recovery
There are two WWN addressing scheme, old one starts with
e10-001 e20-547
10:00 followed by company ID and vendor specific info.
FAST cache FAST
New scheme start with hex 5 or 6 in the first half-byte
VP hardware High
followed by the vendor intenfier in the next 3 bytes: Availability junction

path linux lun masking


luns mirrorview
monitoring mtu
namespace nas

NetApp nfs

ontap ontapp
performance pool

RAID replicaiton
replication RPO
RTO SAN screencast
WWN addressing scheme
snapmirror
snapvault ssh storage

Vendor ID and company ID are assigned by the IEEE group storage pool

standards, and can be found here:


thick thin

unisphere
vnx
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt
workload

WWNN vs WWPN

A worldwide node name (WWNN) is a globally unique 64-bit Archives


identifier that is assigned to each Fibre Channel node or
October 2016

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device. For servers and hosts, WWNN is unique for each September 2016
HBA (host bus adapter), and in a case of a server with two June 2016
HBAs, they have two WWNNs. For a SAN switch, the February 2016
WWNN is a common for the chassis. For storage, the January 2016
WWNN is common for each controller unit of midrage December 2015
storage. In case of high-end enterprise storage, the November 2015
WWNN is unique for the entire array. September 2015
August 2015
A worldwide port number (WWPN) is unique identifier for April 2015
each FC port of any Fibre Channel device. For server, we March 2015
have a WWPN for each port of the HBA. For a SAN switch, February 2015

the WWPN is available for each port in the chassis. For January 2015

Storage, each host port has an individual WWPN. October 2014


September 2014

Port address August 2014


July 2014
June 2014
Additionally to WWNs there is another addressing scheme
May 2014
that is used in Fibre Channel networks. This scheme is
November 2013
used to address ports in the switched fabric. Each port in
the switched fabric has its own unique 24-bit address.

24-bit Port Addressing scheme

Those 24-bit addressess are used strictly for routing


processes. It contains Domain ID, Area ID and Node ID.

Domain

This byte is the address of the switch itself. A domain ID is a


unique number that identifies the switch or director to a
fabric. One byte allows up to 256 possible addresses.
Because some of these addresses are reserved, as for the
one for broadcast, there are only 239 addresses available.
This number means that you can theoretically have as
many as 239 switches in your SAN environment.

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Area

The area field provides 256 addresses. This part of the


address is used to identify the individual ports. Hence, to
have more than 256 ports in one switch in a director class of
switches, you must follow the shared area addressing.

Port / Node

The final part of the address provides 256 addresses for


identifying attached N_Ports and NL_Ports.

SAN / Brocade Storage theory brocade SAN

Introduction to Fibre Channel EMC VNX Unisphere Quick


overview

3 thoughts on Fibre Channel addressing

Lokesh says:
November 27, 2014 at 4:21 am

Great explanation !!!

Could you post something about shared area


addressing

Thank you

Reply

siva kishore bandaru says:


February 22, 2015 at 6:48 pm

Exlent explanation.

Reply

alshah says:
May 27, 2016 at 10:24 pm

Excellent
I like the way explain

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