https://community.hpe.com/t5/general/isl-trunking/m-p/3573675#M2712 Hello. I have two two separate brocade fabrics with hsg80s on them. Both fabrics are zoned, and by separate I mean completely different not A and B redundant sides. However I have a appliance on one side that I would like to see at least one port on the lone HSG80 on the other fabric so I can monitor it easily since it is in another building.<BR /><BR />My question is there a way to ISL or a similar feature on the 2800 that would allow me to not combine the fabrics/zones configurations but make a port visable? I figure I could take one of the fibers off the other hsg and put it in a zone the other fabric but I do not want to take away any redundancy either on any controller which makes this a bad option :). I would rather not merge the fabric because other than makeing the other san visable to the appliance the extra traffic and such does me no good. Any ideas? Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:37:56 GMT generic_1 2005-06-29T18:37:56Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/general/isl-trunking/m-p/3573675#M2712 Hello. I have two two separate brocade fabrics with hsg80s on them. Both fabrics are zoned, and by separate I mean completely different not A and B redundant sides. However I have a appliance on one side that I would like to see at least one port on the lone HSG80 on the other fabric so I can monitor it easily since it is in another building.<BR /><BR />My question is there a way to ISL or a similar feature on the 2800 that would allow me to not combine the fabrics/zones configurations but make a port visable? I figure I could take one of the fibers off the other hsg and put it in a zone the other fabric but I do not want to take away any redundancy either on any controller which makes this a bad option :). I would rather not merge the fabric because other than makeing the other san visable to the appliance the extra traffic and such does me no good. Any ideas? Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:37:56 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/general/isl-trunking/m-p/3573675#M2712 generic_1 2005-06-29T18:37:56Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/general/isl-trunking/m-p/3573676#M2713 You might want to take a look at Brocade's Multiprotocol Router - it's a device that can selectively connect devices from different fabrics without merging them. Else you are out of luck - have a working ISLs and the fabrics will attempt to merge.<BR /><BR />If you had CISCO gear, you might string everything together, create different VSANs and selectively connect devices via Inter-VSAN routing.<BR /><BR />I am afraid that for both possibilities you will need to spend quite some money, sorry. Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:49:41 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/general/isl-trunking/m-p/3573676#M2713 Uwe Zessin 2005-06-30T00:49:41Z