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

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Virtual Fabrics 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 593.
Table 28 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 port
requirements shown in Table 29.
NOTE
In the 384-port Backbone Chassis, ports 48–63 of the FC 8 GB 64-port Blade are not supported in
the base switch, and ports 56–63 are not supported as E_Ports on the default logical switch. The
192-port Backbone Chassis does not have these limitations.
TABLE 28 Maximum number of logical switches per chassis
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 29 Blade and port types supported on logical switches
Logical switch type Ports
Default logical switch • Extension Blade—E_, F_, GE_, and VE_Ports
• FC 10-6 ISL Blade—E_ and F_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
• 384-port and 192-port Backbone Chassis— ICL 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