Chaparral VFS113 - Manual (Page 12)

VFS113 Rack/Desktop Model User’s Guide
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Conventions
This Guide uses several typographical conventions to help explain how to use the router.
Chaparral VFS113 Router Benefits
and Features
The router offers you three key benefits:
■ Allows you to connect legacy SCSI devices to Fibre Channel SANs
■ Allows you to manage these devices
■
Frees your servers from storage-related traffic, such as your data backup load, using
the Extended Copy option.
The router provides the following product features:
■ One full-duplex, 1.0625 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel host port
■
FC-AL and Fibre Channel Switched Fabric (FC-SW) topologies
■ Class 3 service
■
Private Loop Direct Attach (PLDA) compliant
■
SCSI-FCP (SCSI over Fibre Channel)
■ Support for up to 128 FC initiators with up to 32 concurrently active
■
Three independent SCSI device channels
■ Support of up to 45 SCSI IDs on three independent SCSI channels
(15 IDs per channel)
■ Addressing of up to 64 LUNs
■ One RS-232 serial port
■
One 10BaseT Ethernet port
Convention Convention
Bold Words in bold indicate items to select such as menu items or
command buttons.
Ctrl-r Keys you press simultaneously. In this example, hold down the
Ctrl key and press the r key.
Notes give you important information that may affect how you
decide to set up your system.
Cautions warn you about actions that may permanently delete
data or cause damage to your system.
Tips give you information that can help you improve the
performance of your system.
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