You need to check a few things like 1. if the fabricbuilding(during ISL merging) would be transparent to existing connections. 2. You can chose a G- port (nothing logged in) and change to E_port for ISL. 3. for trunking you can use portcfgtrunkport and you can test ISL using spinfab if you dont have a web based tool to manage.  Any chance you would be using ISL(Inter chassis Link)? PS:- I am not a Brocade expert at all, but just giving you some hints [IMAGE]
Hello All,  I have two seperate fabrics each having a single DCX Backbone  switch.We 're now going to add a brand new DCX switch to each of the fabrics. I am pretty new in setting this Up and no prior experiance .  can some one help me what all steps i need to check and configure on the new switch before running the cables to the free port.Like setting the domain ID and other things.  Also , My second question is how do I select my ports for trunking & ISL ..  Appreciate if some one can help me understand this setup.  This will be the configuration  Slot   Blade Type     ID    Status-----------------------------------  1     SW BLADE     51     ENABLED  2     SW BLADE     51     ENABLED  3     SW BLADE     51     ENABLED  4     UNKNOWN             VACANT  5     CORE BLADE   52     ENABLED  6     CP BLADE     50     ENABLED  7     CP BLADE     50     ENABLED  8     CORE BLADE   52     ENABLED  9     UNKNOWN             VACANT10     UNKNOWN             VACANT11     SW BLADE     51     ENABLED12     SW BLADE     51     ENABLED  Thanks all!!
New Switch added to fabric