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Chapter
10
Managing Virtual Fabrics
In this chapter
• Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
• Logical switch overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
• Logical fabric overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
• Management model for logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
• Account management and Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
• Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
• Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
• Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
• Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
• Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values . . . . . . . . . 225
• Creating a logical switch or base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
• Executing a command in a different logical fabric context. . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
• Deleting a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
• Adding and removing ports on a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
• Displaying logical switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
• Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
• Changing a logical switch to a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
• Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
• Changing the context to a different logical fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
• Creating a logical fabric using XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Virtual Fabrics overview
Virtual Fabrics is an architecture to virtualize hardware boundaries. Traditionally, SAN design and
management is done at the granularity of a physical switch. The Virtual Fabrics feature allows SAN
design and management to be done at the granularity of a port.
Virtual Fabrics is a suite of related features that can be customized based on your needs. The
Virtual Fabrics suite consists of the following specific features:
• Logical switch
• Logical fabric
• Device sharing