Users Guide

324 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode
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Restrictions on moving ports
The following are restrictions on moving ports among logical switches:
• FC ports cannot be moved if any one of the following features is enabled:
- Long distance
- QoS
- F_Port buffers
- F_Port trunking
• Before moving VE_Ports, you must remove the VE_Port tunnel configuration.
• VE_Ports on the FX8-24 blade can be moved to any logical switch independent of the location
of the physical GE port.
• If you move existing EX_Ports or VEX_Ports to any logical switch other than the base switch,
these ports are automatically disabled.
Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode
A fabric is said to be in Virtual Fabrics mode (VF mode) when the Virtual Fabrics feature is enabled.
Before you can use the Virtual Fabrics features, such as logical switch and logical fabric, you must
enable VF mode.
VF mode is enabled by default.
NOTE
When you enable VF mode, the control processors (CPs) are rebooted and all EX_Ports are disabled
after the reboot.
Use the following procedure to enable Virtual Fabrics mode:
1. Connect to the physical chassis and log in using an account with the chassis-role permission.
2. Use the fosConfig command to check whether VF mode is enabled:
fosconfig --show
3. Delete all Admin Domains, as described in “Deleting all user-defined Admin Domains
non-disruptively” on page 502.
4. Use the fosConfig command to enable VF mode:
fosconfig --enable vf
5. Enter y at the prompt.
Example
The following example checks whether VF mode is enabled or disabled and then enables it.
switch:admin> fosconfig --show
FC Routing service: disabled
iSCSI service: Service not supported on this Platform
iSNS client service: Service not supported on this Platform
Virtual Fabric: disabled
Ethernet Switch Service: Service not supported on this Platform