Information About Trunking; Trunking E Ports; Trunking F Ports - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual
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Configuring Trunking
Information About Trunking
Trunking, also known as VSAN trunking, is a feature specific to switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Series
Multilayer Switches. Trunking enables interconnect ports to transmit and receive frames in more than one
VSAN, over the same physical link. Trunking is supported on E ports and F ports (see
Ports, on page 199
Trunking E Ports
Trunking the E ports enables interconnect ports to transmit and receive frames in more than one VSAN, over
the same physical link, using enhanced ISL (EISL) frame format.
Figure 4: Trunking E Ports
Note
Trunking is not supported by internal ports on both the Cisco Fabric Switch for HP c_Class BladeSystem and
the Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter.
Trunking F Ports
Trunking F ports allows interconnected ports to transmit and receive tagged frames in more than one VSAN,
over the same physical link.
Figure 5: Trunking F Ports, on page 200
switches, NPV switches, third-party core switches, and HBAs.
and
Figure 5: Trunking F Ports, on page
represents the possible trunking scenarios in a SAN with MDS core
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Interfaces Configuration Guide, Release 8.x
Information About Trunking
Figure 4: Trunking E
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