HP StorageWorks 2/16V Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide (53-1000019 - Page 101

Working With Switch and Port Groups 4 Creating Port Groups When you create port groups, it is better to create more port groups with fewer ports in each group than to create fewer port groups with a lot of ports in each group. The Fabric Manager client memory usage increases with the number of ports you have in a port group when you view that port group. To create a group of ports 1. Click Tasks > Groups > Manage Switch/Port Groups from the Menu bar. The Groups View displays (see Figure 4-11). 2. Select My SAN from the tree in the left-hand side of the window. 3. Click the port group creation icon in the PortGroups panel to create port groups. The Edit Port Groups window appears, as shown in Figure 4-13. Figure 4-13 Edit Port Groups Window 4. Select the PortGroups icon in the right-hand panel of the Edit Port Groups window. The group that you create will be nested within the item that you click in this step. If you click an existing group instead of the PortGroups icon, your new group appears as a subgroup of that group. Using Figure 4-13 as an example, select FastPorts to create a new subgroup within that group; select PortGroups to create a new group at the same level in the hierarchy as FastPorts and SlowPorts. After you create a group, you can drag it to a new location in the hierarchy. 5. Click Create. The Create Group dialog box displays. 6. Type a name for your group in the Name field and click OK. The new port group appears in the right-hand side of the Edit Port Groups window. 7. Select the port group that you created in the right-hand side of the Edit Port Groups window. 8. Select the ports that you want to add to your group from the SAN Elements tab on the left-hand side of the Edit Ports Groups window; then click the right-arrow to add the port to the group. Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide Publication Number: 53-1000196-01-HP 4-19