I have two Brocade TurboIron Ti24x running 8.00.1b. Between the switches I have ports 18 and 19 configured as a trunk. If you show the config you can't see it, but I'm pretty sure a few years ago it was configured using this command:
(config)#interface ethernet 18 ethernet 19
Trunks will be created in the next trunk deploy
(config)#trunk deploy
Now we added a new storage array and this array uses 802.3ad LACP link-aggregation, two ports to one switch, two ports to the other switch. To configure this, we have the storage array set to passive and the switch active. The configuration on the switch looks like this:
nterface ethernet 21
port-name Tegile Controller A Port 1
no spanning-tree
link-aggregate configure timeout short
link-aggregate configure key 21001
link-aggregate active
!
interface ethernet 22
port-name Tegile Controller A Port 2
no spanning-tree
link-aggregate configure key 21001
link-aggregate configure timeout short
link-aggregate active
!
Now my question to the community, is there anything different between manually creating link-aggregate vs a trunk?
Should I CHANGE the links between the switches to link-aggregate?
(config)#interface ethernet 18 ethernet 19
Trunks will be created in the next trunk deploy
(config)#trunk deploy
Now we added a new storage array and this array uses 802.3ad LACP link-aggregation, two ports to one switch, two ports to the other switch. To configure this, we have the storage array set to passive and the switch active. The configuration on the switch looks like this:
nterface ethernet 21
port-name Tegile Controller A Port 1
no spanning-tree
link-aggregate configure timeout short
link-aggregate configure key 21001
link-aggregate active
!
interface ethernet 22
port-name Tegile Controller A Port 2
no spanning-tree
link-aggregate configure key 21001
link-aggregate configure timeout short
link-aggregate active
!
Now my question to the community, is there anything different between manually creating link-aggregate vs a trunk?
Should I CHANGE the links between the switches to link-aggregate?