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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 101
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Blade swapping
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The preparation process also includes any special handling of ports associated with logical
switches. For example, Figure 3 shows the source blade has ports in a logical switch or logical
fabric, and the corresponding destination ports must be included in the associated logical
switch or logical fabric of the source ports.
FIGURE 3 Blade swap with Virtual Fabrics during the swap
4. Port swapping
The swap ports action is an iteration of the portSwap command for each port on the source
blade to each corresponding port on the destination blade.
As shown in Figure 4, the blades can be divided into different logical switches as long as they
are divided the same way. If slot 1 and slot 2 ports 0 through 7 are all in the same logical
switch, then blade swapping slot 1 to slot 2 will work. The entire blade does not need to be in
the same partition.