Specifications
DATA CENTER BEST PRACTICES
SAN Design and Best Practices 79 of 84
APPENDIX C: PORT GROUPS
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 or port blade. Ports in a port group are usually contiguous, but they might not be.
Refer to the hardware reference manual for your product for information about which ports can be used in the
same port group for trunking. The ports are color-coded to indicate which can be used in the same port group
for trunking (trunking port groups can be up to eight ports).
Brocade 5300 Trunk Port Groups
0
USB
Enet
RS
232
4
8 Port Trunk
System
Power
LED
System
Status
LED
1
5
2
6
3
7
8
12
9
13
10
14
11
15
16
20
17
21
18
22
19
23
24
28
25
29
26
30
27
31
32
36
33
37
34
38
35
39
8 Port Trunk 8 Port Trunk 8 Port Trunk 8 Port Trunk
Figure 45. Brocade 5300 Trunk Port Groups.
Brocade FC8-64 Trunk Groups
The Brocade FC8-64 port blade uses 4 Condor2 ASICs, and the gure below shows the ASIC boundaries for
planning ISL trunks and end-nodes congured for local switching. Up to eight 8-port trunk groups can be created
with the 64-port blade.
ASIC C2_1: Port 56-63
ASIC C2_3: Port 24-31
Port 63
Port 31
Port 63
Port 31
63
31
56
24
48
16
40
8
32
0
ASIC C2_0: Port 48-55
ASIC C2_2: Port 16-23
ASIC C2_2: Port 40-47
ASIC C2_1: Port 8-15
ASIC C2_3: Port 32-39
ASIC C2_0: Port 0-7
Figure 46. Brocade FC8-64 Trunk Groups.