HP B-series 16Gb FC Switches Hardware Reference Guide

◦ Advanced Performance Monitor

◦ Fabric Vision Software

• Extended Fabric

• Fabric Watch

• Advanced Performance Monitor

• ISL Trunking

• Integrated Routing

• HP SN6000B 10Gb Integrated FC Extension (enables 10Gb FC for first eight ports)

• SN6000B 16Gb 24-48 12-port FC Upgrade LTU

NOTE: For the latest information on supported software components, see the product QuickSpecs

available from the HP website: http://www.hp.com/go/sn6000b/quickspecs.

ISL Trunking

HP ISL Trunking is optional software that enables creating trunking groups of ISLs between adjacent

switches. Up to eight FC ports on the HP SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch can be used as a trunking

group to achieve speeds of up to 128 Gb/s (256 Gb/s full duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization

and load balancing.

For example, the FC ports on the SAN Switch are numbered from left to right and color-coded in

groups of eight to indicate which ports you can combine into trunking groups. Figure 5 (page 14)

shows the switch with three trunking groups of eight ports.

NOTE: If your switch is licensed for ISL Trunking, use the trunking groups available on the switch.

Figure 5 Trunking groups example

2. Trunking group 2: Ports 8–151. Trunking group 1: Ports 0–7

3. Trunking group 3: Ports 16–23

For more information about ISL Trunking, see the Fabric OS 7.0.x Administrator's Guide for the

firmware version you are running.

1. Fabric OS 7.2.0a or later

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