Assigning A Trunk Area; Trunk Group Configuration For The San Switch 8/40; Address Identifier - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

user port number, with contiguous eight ports as one group, such as 0 – 7, 8- 15, 16-23 and up to the
number of ports on the switch.
Figure 49

Trunk group configuration for the SAN Switch 8/40

To set up F_Port trunking:
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Ensure that both modules (edge switch and the switch running in AG mode) have trunking the licenses
enabled.
3. Ensure that the ports have trunking enabled by issuing the portCfgShow command. If Trunking is not
enabled, issue the portCfgTrunkPort <port>, 1 command.
4. Ensure ports will become the same speed within the trunk.
5. Ensure edge switch F_port trunk ports are connected within the asic supported trunk group on AG
switch.
6. Ensure that both modules are running the same Fabric OS versions.
7. Configure the trunk on the edge switch by assigning the Trunk Area (TA) using the
area" procedure.
8. Enable F_Port trunking.

Assigning a Trunk area

You must enable trunking on all ports to be included in a Trunk Area before you can create a Trunk Area.
Use the portCfgTrunkPort or switchCfgTrunk command to enable trunking on a port or on all
ports of a switch.
Issue the portTrunkArea command to assign a static TA on a port or port trunk group, to remove a TA
from a port or group of ports in a trunk, and to display masterless F_Port trunking information.
You can remove specified ports from a TA using the portTrunkArea --disable command; however
this command does not unassign a TA if its previously assigned Area_ID is the same address identifier
(Area_ID) of the TA unless all the ports in the trunk group are specified to be unassigned. For more
information on the portTrunkArea command, enter help portTrunkArea or see the Fabric OS
Command Reference. F_Port trunking will not support shared area ports 16 - 47 on the FC8-48 and
FC4-48C blades.
Table 83 shows an example of the address identifier.
Table 83

Address identifier

23 22 21 20 19 18
Domain ID
The following example shows how to assign a TA on an enterprise-class platform including ports 13 and 14
on slot 10 with a port index of 125:
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Disable the ports to be included in the TA.
380 Administering ISL trunking
17 16 15 14 13 12
Area_ID
Address Identifier
11 10 9 8 7 6 5
Port ID
"Assigning a Trunk
4 3 2 1 0