Brocade Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 (53-1002748-01, March 2013)

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Virtual Fabrics

• Logical switch 1 has VE17, which has a circuit over GbE0

• Logical switch 2 has VE18, which also has a circuit over GbE0

All of the committed-rate restrictions and bandwidth sharing of the GbE ports for ARL remain the

same for shared ports in the logical switches. VE_Ports created from shared GbE ports initiate as

regular VE ISLs in their respective logical switches.

Limitations of port sharing

Note the following limitations of port sharing:

• Only GbE ports in the default switch can be shared by VE_Ports in different logical switches. A

GbE port in a non-default switch can only be used by VE_Ports in that same logical switch.

• The GbE ports in other logical switches or ports on the base switch cannot be shared by ports

in different logical switches.

• Tunnels created with a mix of dedicated ports (ports within the same logical switch) and

shared ports (ports in the default switch) are not supported.

• When using shared GbE interfaces between the default switch and other logical switches, if

the default switch is disabled, the GbE ports in the default switch will also disable. This will

impact all tunnels in the other logical switches using the GbE interfaces.