Patent ID: 7630385

Claim:
In a system including two or more chassis in a multi-chassis system, wherein each chassis includes one or more blades and each blade includes one or more ports, a method for creating port domains of two or more of the ports, the method comprising: an act of generating a sync group of at least two chassis; an act of selecting two or more ports of the sync group for inclusion in a port domain; an act of determining the locations of the two or more ports relative to each other; and an act of generating the port domain dependent on the relative locations of the two or more ports and based on port domain generation rules, wherein: the act of determining the relative locations of the two or more ports comprises an act of determining that the two or more ports are located on the same chassis of the at least two chassis, and the act of generating the port domain comprises an act of generating a local port domain when the two or more ports are located on the same chassis regardless of the total number of port domains that already exist in the sync group.