topic Redundant ISL between Brocade switches in HPE EVA Storage

Redundant ISL between Brocade switches

ACHCHGUY — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:09:10 GMT

Hi All,
I have 4 Brocade switches connected into 2 fabrics , via 1 ISL between the 2 swicthes in the fabric.

I would like to put a second ISL for redundancy (not for trunking as dont have license).

I tried plugging in the fibre but nothin happened, the ports did not chnage to an E port or anything...what am I missing.

Each fabric has

1 x silkworm 500 fabric os : 6.1.0c (32 port all licensed)
1 x Silkworm HP2 (embedded brocade that comes with EVA 4400) fabric OS:6.1.0_8e

Any help is much appreciated

Re: Redundant ISL between Brocade switches

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:31:21 GMT

Ensure that the ports are not member of any zone. Have you tried running the portdisable/portneable commands?

Re: Redundant ISL between Brocade switches

Sivakumar MJ._1 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:22:04 GMT

Check the Port Speed, do a portenable and portdisable.

HP ISL trunking user guide
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/lpg29160.pdf