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Autocreation Guidelines

Table 71: Channel Group Configuration Differences
User-Configured Channel Group
Manually configured by the user.
Member ports cannot participate in autocreation of
channel groups. The autocreation feature cannot be
configured.
You can form the SAN port channel with a subset of
the ports in the channel group. Incompatible ports
remain in a suspended or isolated state depending on
the On or Active mode configuration.
Any administrative configuration made to the SAN
port channel is applied to all ports in the channel
group, and you can save the configuration for the port
channel interface.
You can remove any channel group and add members
to a channel group.
Autocreation Guidelines
When using the autocreation protocol, follow these guidelines:
• A port is not allowed to be configured as part of a SAN port channel when the autocreation feature is
• Autocreation must be enabled in both the local and peer ports to negotiate a SAN port channel.
• Aggregation occurs in one of two ways:
• Newly created SAN port channels are allocated from the maximum possible port channel number in a
• You cannot change the membership or delete an autocreated SAN port channel.
• When you disable autocreation, all member ports are removed from the autocreated SAN port channel.
• Once the last member is removed from an autocreated SAN port channel, the channel is automatically
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enabled. These two configurations are mutually exclusive.
◦ A port is aggregated into a compatible autocreated SAN port channel.
◦ A port is aggregated with another compatible port to form a new SAN port channel.
decreasing order based on availability. If all port channel numbers are used up, aggregation is not allowed.
deleted and the number is released for reuse.
Configuring SAN Port Channels
Autocreated Channel Group
Created automatically when compatible links come
up between two compatible switches, if channel group
autocreation is enabled in all ports at both ends.
None of these ports are members of a user-configured
channel group.
All ports included in the channel group participate in
the SAN port channel. No member port becomes
isolated or suspended; instead, the member port is
removed from the channel group when the link is
found to be incompatible.
Any administrative configuration made to the SAN
port channel is applied to all ports in the channel
group, but the configurations are saved for the
member ports; no configuration is saved for the port
channel interface. You can explicitly convert this
channel group, if required.
You cannot remove a channel group. You cannot add
members to the channel group or remove members.
The channel group is removed when no member ports
exist.
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