Supported Hardware; Port Combinations For Port Mirroring - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

Supported hardware

Port mirroring is supported on Condor-based ASIC platforms, including:
• HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/32 and 4/32B
• HP StorageWorks 4/64 SAN Switch
• HP StorageWorks 400 MP Router
• 4/256 SAN Director and DC Director with chassis option 5
Port mirroring can be used on the following blades within a chassis:
• FC4-32 32-port blade
• FC4- 1 6 16-port blade
• FC4-48 48-port blade
• FC8- 1 6 16-port blade
• FC8-32 32-port blade
• FC8-48 48-port blade
• FC4- 1 6IP iSCSI blade on FC ports only
The FC4-48 and FC8-48 implement port pairing, meaning that two ports share the same area. Port
pairing uses a single area to map to two physical ports. A frame destined to the secondary port is
routed to the primary port. The primary port's filtering zone engine is used to redirect the frame to the
secondary port. Port mirroring uses the port filter zone engine to redirect the frames to the mirror port. If
two F_Ports share the same area, both ports cannot be part of a mirror connection. One of the two
ports can be part of the connection as long as the other port is offline. Supported port configurations
are shown in
Table 75

Port combinations for port mirroring

Primary port
F_Port
F_Port
Offline
F_Port
E_Port
E_Port
If IOD is enabled, adding or deleting a port mirror connection causes a frame drop. Port mirroring
reroutes a given connection to the mirror port, where the mirror traffic takes an extra route to the mirror
port. When the extra route is removed, the frames between the two ports goes directly to the
destination port. Since the frames at the mirror port could be queued at the destination port behind
those frames that went directly to the destination port, port mirroring drops those frames from the mirror
port when a connection is disabled. If IOD has been disabled, port mirroring does not drop any frames
but displays an IOD error.
• A port cannot be mirrored to multiple locations. If you define multiple mirror connections for the same
F_Port, all the connections must share the same mirror port.
• Local switches cannot be mirrored because FICON CUP frames to a local switch are treated as
well-known addresses or embedded frame traffic.
• Using firmware download to downgrade to previous Fabric OS releases that do not support port
mirroring requires that you remove all port mirroring connections.
Table 75.
Secondary port Supported
F_Port No
Offline Yes
F_Port Yes
E_Port Yes
F_Port Yes
E_Port No
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