Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002148-02, June 2011)

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When you have port blades with different port counts in the same director (for example, 16-port
blades and 32-port blades, or 16-port blades and 18-port blades with 16 FC ports and 2 GbE ports,
or 16-port and 48-port blades), the area IDs no longer match the port numbers.
Table 5 lists the port numbering schemes for the blades.
Setting port names
Perform the following steps to specify a port name. For enterprise-class directors, specify the slot
number where the blade is installed.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the portName command.
Example of naming port 0
ecp:admin> portname 1/0 trunk1
Port identification by slot and port number
The port number is a number assigned to an external port to give it a unique identifier in a switch.
To select a specific port in the enterprise-class platforms, you must identify both the slot number
and the port number using the format slot number/port number. No spaces are allowed between
the slot number, the slash (/), and the port number.
Example of enabling port 4 on a blade in slot 2
ecp:admin> portenable 2/4
TABLE 5 Port numbering schemes for the port and application blades
Port blades Numbering scheme
FC8-16 Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top.
FC8-32
FC16-32
Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 16 through
31 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FC8-48
FC16-48
Ports are numbered from 0 through 23 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 24 through
47 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FC8-64 Ports are numbered from 0 through 32 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 33 through
64 from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FC10-6 Ports are numbered from 0 through 5 from bottom to top.
FR4-18i Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top. There are also 2 GbE ports (numbered
ge0-ge1, from bottom to top). Going from bottom to top, the 2 GbE ports appear on the bottom of
the blade followed by 16 FC ports.
FS8-18 Ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top. There are also 2 GbE ports (numbered
ge0-ge1, from top to bottom). Going from top to bottom, the 2 GbE ports appear on the top of the
blade followed by 16 FC ports.
FCOE10-24 Ports are numbered 0 through 11 from bottom to top on the left set of ports and 12 through 24
from bottom to top on the right set of ports.
FX8-24 In the first grouping, there are Fibre Channel ports numbered 0 through 5 from bottom to top on the
left set of ports and 6 through 11 from bottom to top on the right set of ports. In the second
grouping, there are two 10 GbE ports numbered xge0 and xge1 on the left set of ports and two GbE
ports numbered ge4 and ge5 on the right side. In the third grouping, the GbE ports are numbered
ge0 through ge3 on the left set of ports and ge6 through ge9 on the right set of ports.