Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

Managing Virtual Fabrics
● Virtual Fabrics overview................................................................................................ 267
● Logical switch overview.................................................................................................268
● Management model for logical switches....................................................................... 274
● Logical fabric overview..................................................................................................274
● Account management and Virtual Fabrics.................................................................... 279
● Setting up IP addresses for a logical switch..................................................................279
● Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics.........................................................................280
● Virtual Fabrics interaction with other Fabric OS features..............................................282
● Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics................................................................283
● Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode...................................................................................... 285
● Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode..................................................................................... 285
● Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values.....................................286
● Creating a logical switch or base switch....................................................................... 287
● Executing a command in a different logical switch context........................................... 288
● Deleting a logical switch................................................................................................289
● Adding and moving ports on a logical switch................................................................ 290
● Displaying logical switch configuration..........................................................................291
● Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch..................................................................... 291
● Changing a logical switch to a base switch...................................................................292
● Configuring a logical switch for XISL use .....................................................................293
● Changing the context to a different logical fabric.......................................................... 294
● Creating a logical fabric using XISLs............................................................................ 294
Virtual Fabrics overview
Virtual Fabrics is an architecture to virtualize hardware boundaries. Traditionally, SAN design and
management is done at the granularity of a physical switch. Virtual Fabrics allows SAN design and
management to be done at the granularity of a port.
Virtual Fabrics is a suite of related features that can be customized based on your needs. The Virtual
Fabrics suite consists of the following specific features:
• Logical switch
• Logical fabric
• Device sharing
This chapter describes the logical switch and logical fabric features. For information about device
sharing with Virtual Fabrics, refer to FC-FC routing and Virtual Fabrics on page 575.
Virtual Fabrics and Admin Domains are mutually exclusive and are not supported at the same time on a
switch.
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