DCFM Enterprise User Manual (53-1001775-01, June 2010)

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Swapping blades

NOTE

Blade-based port swap is mainly used for FICON and is only applicable for port blades. However, the

Management application does not block blade-based port swap for other application blades,

including the 8 Gbps 24-port blade.

You can swap all of the ports from one blade to another blade. During this operation all ports in the

selected blades are swapped. This operation disrupts the traffic on all ports for the selected

blades. If GigE ports are present on the blade, only the non-GigE ports are swapped.

To swap blades, you must meet the following requirements:

• The chassis must be running Fabric OS 6.3 or later.

• The chassis must have at least two blades of same type present.

Example

The source blade has ports sp1 and sp2, and the destination blade has ports dp1 and dp2. During

the swap operation, the address sp1 is swapped with dp1 and address sp2 is swapped with dp2.

NOTE

To perform the Swap Blades function you must have Read and Write access for the Product

Administration privilege.

To swap blades, complete the following steps.

1. Select a chassis that contains at least two of the same type of blades.

2. Select Configure > Switch > Swap Blades.

The Swap Blades dialog box displays.

3. Select the blade you want to replace from the first Swap Blades list.

Once you select a blade, the second list automatically filters out the selected blade and any

blade types that do not match the selected blade.

4. Select the blade with which you want to replace the first blade from the second Swap Blades

list.

5. Select the Enable ports after swap is complete check box to enable ports on the destination

blade after the swap is complete.

6. Click OK.

NOTE

This operation disrupts the traffic on all ports for the selected blades.

7. Clic k Yes on the confirmation message.

Once the swap blade operation is complete, a ‘success’ or ‘failure’ message displays.