HP StorageWorks SAN Director Installation Guide (A7393-90009, May 2007)

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Port numbering
Except for the following cases, the area ID is equal to the port number:
• when performing a port swap operation
• when enabling Extended Edge PID mode on the Director. For more information on Extended
Edge PID mode, refer to the
HP StorageWorks Fabric OS administrator guide .
The 4/256 SAN Director uses the following port numbering schemes, see Figure 3:
• For the FC4-16 port blade— ports are numbered from 0 through 15 from bottom to top.
• For the FC4-32 port blade— 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.
• For the FC4-48 port blade—
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.
• For the FR4-18i—The sixteen physical Fibre Channel ports on this blade are numbered 0 through
15 from bottom to top. The two GbE ports are numbered from the bottom as Ge0 and Ge1.
These ports, when fully configured, enable 16 VE_Ports or VEX _Ports and appear in the
switchShow command as ports 16 through 31.
• For the FC4-16IP—The port numbering is divided between the two type of ports. At the bottom of
the blade, note that Fibre Channel (FC) ports numbered from 0 through 7 bottom to top.
Similarly, the next eight GbE ports number 0 through 7, bottom to top.
Slots number 1 through 10, from left to right when facing the port side of the Director. The CPs
reside in slots 5 and 6 respectively.
Use ”Port numbering templates” on page 239 as a port numbering template for your SAN to easily
identify how the ports are numbered. If you have a 16-port blade installed, cross out the extra ports
displayed on the template.