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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 1-1
Publication Number: 53-0000518-09
Chapter
1
Introducing Fabric OS CLI Procedures
This guide contains procedures for configuring and managing a Brocade
®
SilkWorm
®
Storage Area
Network (SAN) using the Fabric OS Command Line Interface (CLI).
The guide applies to the following Brocade product models:
• SilkWorm switches: 200E, 3016, 3250, 3850, 3900, 4012, and 4100
These SilkWorm models contain a fixed number of ports (they are fixed-port switches). The
SilkWorm 4100 and 200E models allow you to license and activate extra fixed ports with the Ports
on Demand feature.
• SilkWorm directors: 12000, 24000, and 48000
These SilkWorm models can contain a variable number of ports, which you install by plugging port
blades into the director chassis. The SilkWorm 48000 can have up to 256 ports, and the SilkWorm
12000 and 24000 can have up to 128 ports.
About Procedural Differences
As a result of the differences between fixed-port and variable-port devices, procedures sometimes differ
among SilkWorm models. Also, because the domain architecture of the SilkWorm 12000 differs from
that of the SilkWorm 24000 and SilkWorm 48000, there are sometimes procedural differences among
these models. As new SilkWorm models are introduced, new features sometimes apply only to those
models.
When procedures or parts of procedures apply to some models but not others, this guide identifies the
specifics for each model. For example, a number of procedures that apply only to variable-port devices
are found in “Configuring SilkWorm 12000, 24000, and 48000 Directors” on page 5-1. Procedures that
apply only to the SilkWorm 3016 or 4100 model are labeled as such.
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ote
When command examples in this guide show user input enclosed in quotation marks, the quotation
marks are required for versions earlier than v4.0.0. They are optional in later versions, unless
specifically called for in the procedures.