How to partition/segment a Brocade 4100 switch?

[Partitioning Segmenting]

Hi,
for lab testing purposes, I need to partition a Brocade 4100 into independent parts such that traffic coming from an F port will be sent over a specific E port, while traffic coming from another F port will be sent over a different E (or TE) port. Traffic balancing on the E links is NOT WANTED, cause I need to keep the two F flows independent and separate.

I am new to Brocade.
I have gone through documentation, and I have come to this solution (still to be validated): change aptPolicy to 1 (currently I have 3 as default), then create static routes to link desired F and E ports and disable load sharing with dlsReset.

Is there anybody who can confirm this is the right way? Is there anything else that I might add to the configuration?

thanks in advance
Mat

[RM782]

Hi Matt

You may want to consider using Traffic Isolation zones. Your firmware will need to be fos 6.1.
to confure eg:

Cli command:

zone --create -t ti redzone -p "PWWN;1,1;1,4;2,1;2,3;PWWN"

Where Pwwn are the devices and domain, port of the path you wish it to take.

zone --activate redzone

the changes will not be enforced until cfgenable command is issued.

Hope that helps

[Partitioning Segmenting]

Thanks for your input.
Unfortunately I'm running 5.0.1b. Zoning is does not apply as valid solution.
Thanks anyway for suggesting.

[RM782 · Accepted solution]

uRouteConfig,
aptpolicy set to 1 will use port routing and not exchange, check linkcost also