Hi,  Theoretically, you cannot manually set a FCID on a Brocade Port. Brocade defines the FCID depending on the port whilst Cisco does not. This fact makes very difficult to set the same FCID on a Cisco and a Brocade switch. You can set the same Domain ID both switchs, and if by any chance the FCID assigned to the HPUX hba has also been assigned to a Brocade Port, you can connect it there, FCID won't chance, not affecting the HW path (or you can also connect it to the port you want and use command portswap to exchange that port FCID with the one you need); but I am afraid that a small percent of times this will happen.   Rgds
Hi experts,  I have several HP-UX hosts connected to Clariion using a Cisco based SAN. I'm aware that for certain OSs the FCID is critical and I know HP-UX is one of them (I think Solaris was the other one). I can look up the FCIDs the HBAs of each HP-UX have and my plan was to set FCIDs to each HP-UX HBA on the Brocade SAN, but I'm not sure this is possible (in Cisco you can). How can I make this transition as painless as possible?  One option is to set the domain id the same as the previous Cisco switch, look up the FCID the wwpn currently has and dedicate the switch port containing that particular FCID to the HBA that's going to be moved. What do you think of this solution? (or can you manually set FCIDs on Brocade?)
HP-UX hosts on Cisco SAN need to move to Brocade SAN. Non disruptive?