Figure 20 Switch Before And After Enabling Virtual Fabrics; Figure 21 Switch Before And After Creating Logical Switches - Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001763-02 Administrator's Manual

FIGURE 20
After you enable Virtual Fabrics, you can create up to eight logical switches, depending on the
switch model.
Figure 21
Before you create logical switches, the chassis appears as a single switch (default logical switch).
After you create logical switches, the chassis appears as multiple independent logical switches. All
of the ports continue to belong to the default logical switch until you explicitly move them to other
logical switches.
The default logical switch always exists. You can add and delete other logical switches, but you
cannot delete the default logical switch unless you disable Virtual Fabrics.
Before logical switch creation
FIGURE 21
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Before enabling Virtual Fabrics
Physical chassis
P0 P3 P6
P1 P4 P7
P2 P5 P8
Switch before and after enabling Virtual Fabrics
shows a Virtual Fabrics-enabled switch before and after it is divided into logical switches.
Physical chassis
Default logical switch
P0 P3 P6 P9
P1 P4 P7
P2 P5 P8
Switch before and after creating logical switches
P9
After logical switch creation
P0
P1
Logical switch overview
After enabling Virtual Fabrics
Physical chassis
Default logical switch
P0 P3 P6
P1 P4 P7
P2 P5 P8
Logical switch 1
(Default logical switch)
P2 P4 P6 P8
P3 P5 P7 P9
Logical switch 2
Logical switch 3
Logical switch 4
10
P9
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