Configuring Vsan Trunking; Information About Vsan Trunking - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Configuring VSAN Trunking

This chapter contains the following sections:
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Configuring VSAN Trunking

Information About VSAN Trunking

VSAN trunking enables interconnect ports to transmit and receive frames in more than one VSAN, over the
same physical link, using enhanced ISL (EISL) frame format (see the following figure).
Figure 48: VSAN Trunking
VSAN trunking is supported on native Fibre Channel interfaces, but not on virtual Fibre Channel interfaces.
The VSAN trunking feature includes the following restrictions:
• Trunking configurations are only applicable to E ports. If trunk mode is enabled in an E port and that
• The trunk-allowed VSANs configured for TE ports are used by the trunking protocol to determine the
• If a trunking-enabled E port is connected to a third-party switch, the trunking protocol ensures seamless
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port becomes operational as a trunking E port, it is referred to as a TE port.
allowed-active VSANs in which frames can be received or transmitted.
operation as an E port.
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