F and TF PortChannel Limitations

The following guidelines and restrictions are applicable for F and TF PortChannels:

• The ports must be in F mode.
• Automatic creation is not supported.
• The PortChannel interface must be in ACTIVE mode when multiple FCIP interfaces are grouped with WA.
• ON mode is not supported. Only ACTIVE-ACTIVE mode is supported. By default, the mode is ACTIVE on the NPV switches.
• Devices logged in through F PortChannel on an MDS switch are not supported in IVR non-NAT configuration. The devices are supported only in IVR NAT configuration.
• Port security rules are enforced only on physical pWWNs at the single link level.
• FC-SP authenticates only the first physical FLOGI of every PortChannel member.
• Since the FLOGI payload carries only the VF bits to trigger the use of a protocol after the FLOGI exchange, those bits will be overridden. In the case of the NPV switches, the core has a Cisco WWN and will try to initiate the PCP protocol.
• The name server registration of the N ports logging in through an F PortChannel will use the fWWN of the PortChannel interface.
• DPVM configuration is not supported.
• The PortChannel port VSAN cannot be configured using DPVM.
• The Dynamic Port VSAN Management (DPVM) database will be queried only for the first physical FLOGI of each member, so that the port VSAN can be configured automatically.
• DPVM does not bind FC_IDs to VSANs, but pWWNs to VSANs. It will be queried only for the physical FLOGI.

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