Trunking E Ports; Trunking F Ports - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual

About Trunking
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Trunking E Ports

Trunking the E ports enables interconnect ports to transmit and receive frames in more than one VSAN,
over the same physical link, using enhanced ISL (EISL) frame format.
Figure 5-1
Switch 1
Trunking is not supported by internal ports on both the Cisco Fabric Switch for HP c_Class BladeSystem
Note
and the Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter.

Trunking F Ports

Trunking F ports allows interconnected ports to transmit and receive tagged frames in more than one
VSAN, over the same physical link.
MDS core switches, NPV switches, third-party core switches, and HBAs.
Figure 5-2
3rd party Core
Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide
5-2
Trunking E Ports
Any other
switch
ISL
E port E port
Trunking F Ports
Switch
TF F
3
EPP
5
NP
TNP
EVFP
HB A
Switch 1
TE port
Figure 5-2 represents the possible trunking scenarios in a SAN with
MDS Core
Switch
TF TF
2
4
EPP
EPP
TNP TNP
NPV Switch
F TF
1b
EVFP
N TN
HB A
Chapter 5
Switch 2
EISL
TE port
Trunking
EVFP
1a
TN
HB A
OL-19445-02, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.2(x)
Configuring Trunking