From: vinod kumar (vinodkumarmp@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2007 - 11:37:45 EDT
I am replaying too late . But just to add little more
.
We have 4 brocade switch ( on each fabrics ) ISL'd
together . 1 32 port main brocade and 3 HP Blade
minuture switchs ( 8 port ) .
ISL between brocade very simple ( as you already found
out ) by just connecting the fibre cable between
switches . Few points you need to make sure before
you connect the cable .
1. There should not be any zone config on new switch
you are adding . if any , remove it before you
connect the cable . ( if might work if there is some
zones , but you wil end up cleaning it and if for any
chance , wwn or fcid confcit with new and old , it
will affect your prod )
2. dom ID should be uniq . Easy way to do this is
keep all Blade switches above 20 .
3. update firmware on new switch to min what is on the
main switch.
I worked on brocade for 5 + years but I like the
cisco mds now because it has some cool featurs which
brocade does not have . We are going to get HP
Blades with Cisco switches now onwards . One cool
thing with Cisco - cisco ISL ( both switch should be
Cisco) is that if you saturate the san traffic ( with
blades it is possible ) all you need is to coonect one
more cable between these switches and cisco
automatically truck it to double the bandwidth .
Thanks
-vinod
--- "Scalone, Galen" <Galen.Scalone@vacationclub.com>
wrote:
> Thanks to Todd Willeat, and Richard Aranas:
>
> Yes it is that simple. Just make sure your Firmware
> levels are up to
> date, Run a cable between the switches, and they act
> like one switch.
> Just keep an eye on: Domain ID, they must be
> different on each switch in
> an ISL, and which switch is Principal, and which is
> Subordinate.
>
> Galen
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl
> [mailto:hpux-admin-owner@DutchWorks.nl] On Behalf Of
> Scalone, Galen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:32 PM
> To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
> Subject: [HPADM] OT: Cascade Brocade Switches
>
>
>
> List -
> Sorry for the OT post, but this list is so good, I
> had to give
> it a try.
> Ok... enough sucking up...
>
> Has anyone cascaded two fiber channel switches
> together? We have
> a 32 port brocade, and want to cascade it to another
> brocade. In essence
> we want to "add" ports to a 32 port switch. All of
> the info I've found
> is in relation to trunking switches. That's not what
> we want to do, we
> want to ISL them. I want to take 1 port on the 32b,
> and connect it to 1
> port on an HP P-class internal switch, in an HP
> Blade enclosure. The
> blade enclosure switches have 8 internal ports, and
> 4 external. I've
> heard that all I need to do is connect a cable from
> one switch to the
> other switch, and viola, ISL'd. Sounds too simple.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Galen
>
>
>
>
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