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336 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Creating a logical fabric using XISLs
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For the example shown in Figure 32, you would create a logical switch with FID 1 and a
logical switch with FID 15.
c. Assign ports to the logical switch, as described in “Adding and moving ports on a logical
switch” on page 329.
d. Physically connect devices and ISLs to these ports on the logical switch.
e. (Optional) Configure the logical switch to use XISLs, if it is not already XISL-capable. See
“Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs” on page 333 for instructions.
By default, newly created logical switches are configured to allow XISL use.
f. Repeat step a through step e in all chassis that are to participate in the logical fabric,
using the same fabric ID whenever two switches need to be part of a single logical fabric.
5. Enable all logical switches by entering the switchEnable command on each logical switch that
you created in step 4 (the base switches are already enabled).
The logical fabric is formed.
The fabricShow command displays all logical switches configured with the same fabric ID as the
local switch and all non-Virtual Fabrics switches connected through ISLs to these logical switches.
The switchShow command displays logical ports as E_Ports, with -1 for the slot and the user port
number for the slot port.