Users Guide

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Chapter
11
Managing Virtual Fabrics
In this chapter
•Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
•Logical switch overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
•Logical fabric overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
•Management model for logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
•Account management and Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
•Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
•Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
•Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
•Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
•Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values . . . . . . . . . 326
•Creating a logical switch or base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
•Executing a command in a different logical switch context . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
•Deleting a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
•Adding and moving ports on a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
•Displaying logical switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
•Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
•Changing a logical switch to a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
•Setting up IP addresses for a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
•Removing an IP address for a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
•Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
•Changing the context to a different logical fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
•Creating a logical fabric using XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
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