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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 571
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Supported platforms for trunking
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License requirements for trunking
Trunking of non-ICL ports (E_Ports, EX_Ports, and F_Ports) requires the Trunking license. This
license must be installed on each switch that participates in trunking.
Trunking of ICL ports (E_Ports and EX_Ports) does not require a Trunking license.
ATTENTION
After you add the Trunking license, to enable trunking functionality, you must disable and then
re-enable each port to be used in trunking, or disable and re-enable the switch.
Refer to Chapter 21, “Administering Licensing,” for information about activating licenses.
Port groups for trunking
For trunk groups to form, several conditions must be met. One of the conditions is that all of the
ports in a trunk group must belong to the same port group. A port group is a group of eight ports,
based on the user port number, such as 0–7, 8–15, 16–23, and up to the number of ports on the
switch. The maximum number of port groups is platform-specific.
Figure 82 shows the port groups for the Brocade 5100.
Ports in a port group are usually contiguous, but they may not be. Refer to the hardware reference
manual for your switch for information about which ports can be used in the same port group for
trunking.
FIGURE 82 Port group configuration for the Brocade 5100
Supported platforms for trunking
Trunking is supported on the FC ports of all Brocade platforms and blades supported in Fabric OS
v7.0.0 and later.
EX_Port trunking is supported only on those platforms that support EX_Ports. Refer to “Supported
platforms for FC-FC routing” on page 594 for more information.
Supported configurations for trunking
• Trunk links can be 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, 8 Gbps, 10 Gbps, or 16 Gbps, depending on the Brocade
platform.
• The maximum number of ports per trunk and trunks per switch depends on the Brocade
platform.
• You can have up to eight ports in one trunk group to create high-performance ISL trunks
between switches, providing up to 128 Gbps (based on a 16-Gbps port speed).