Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus User Manual - Supporting DCFM 10.3.x (53-1001356-01, October 2009)
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Virtual Fabric requirements
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For more information about enabling Virtual Fabrics on a physical chassis, refer to “Enabling Virtual
Fabrics on a discovered device” on page 495.
The following table lists the Virtual Fabric-capable physical chassis and the number of logical
switches allowed for each of those physical chassis.
For the 40-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch and the 80-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch, any port can be assigned to
any logical switch. However, depending on the partition type, the backbone chassis have the
following port requirements.
TABLE 43 Physical chassis requirements
Physical chassis Number of logical switches allowed
40-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch 3
80-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch 4
384-port Backbone Chassis 8
192-port Backbone Chassis 8
TABLE 44 Backbone chassis port requirements
Logical switch type Ports
Default logical switch • Extension Blade—E_, F_, GE_, and VE_Ports
• Application Platform Blade—E_ and F_Ports
• FC 10-6 ISL Blade—E_ and F_Ports
• Encryption Blade—E_, F_, and Encryption ports
• FC 8 GB Port Blade—E_ and F_Ports
• 10 Gig FCoE port Blade—E_ and F_Ports
• 8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports, 2-10 GbE ports extension Blade
• FC ports: E_, F_, and VE_Ports
• GE ports: VE_Ports
• 384-port and 192-port Backbone Chassis— ICL ports
Logical switch
• Extension Blade—GE_ and VE_Ports
• FC 8 GB Port Blade—E_ and F_Ports
• 8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports, 2-10 GbE ports Extension Blade
• FC ports: E_, F_, and VE_Ports
• GE ports: VE_Ports
Base switch
• Extension Blade—GE_ and VEX_Ports
• FC 8 GB Port Blade—E_ and EX_Ports
• 8 Gbps 12-FC port, 10 GbE ports, 2-10 GbE ports extension Blade
• FC ports: E_, EX_, VE_, and VEX_Ports
• GE ports: VE_Ports
• 384-port and 192-port Backbone Chassis— ICL Ports