About Channel Group Creation - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Chapter 23 Configuring PortChannels
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
The PortChannel protocol uses two sub-protocols:
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This section describes how to configure the PortChannel protocol and includes the following sections:
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About Channel Group Creation

Channel groups are not supported on internal ports in the Cisco Fabric Switch for HP c-Class
Note
BladeSystem and the Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeSystem.
Assuming link A1-B1 comes up first in
the next link, say A2-B2 comes up, the PortChannel protocol identifies if this link is compatible with
link A1-B1 and automatically creates channel groups 10 and 20 in the respective switches. If link A3-B3
can join the channel groups (and hence, the PortChannels), the respective ports have compatible
configurations. If link A4-B4 operates as an individual link, it is because of the incompatible
configuration of the two end ports with the other member ports in this channel group.
Figure 23-15
Channel Group 10
Cisco MDS
Switch A
The channel group numbers are selected dynamically, and as such, the administrative configuration of
the ports forming the channel group at either end are applicable to the newly created channel group. The
channel group number being chosen dynamically may be different across reboots for the same set of
PortChannels based on the order of ports that are initialized in the switch.
Table 23-2
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Bringup protocol—Automatically detects misconfigurations so you can correct them. This protocol
synchronizes the PortChannel at both ends so that all frames for a given flow (as identified by the
source FC ID, destination FC ID and OX_ID) are carried over the same physical link in both
directions. This helps make applications like write acceleration work for PortChannels over FCIP
links.
Autocreation protocol—Automatically aggregates compatible ports into a PortChannel.
About Channel Group Creation, page 23-17
About Autocreation, page 23-18
Enabling and Configuring Autocreation, page 23-19
About Manually Configured Channel Groups, page 23-19
Converting to Manually Configured Channel Groups, page 23-19
Autocreating Channel Groups
Channel Group 20
po10 po20
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identifies the differences between user-configured and auto-configured channel groups.
Figure 23-15, that link is operational as an individual link.When
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Cisco MDS
Switch B
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
PortChannel Protocol
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