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• If you want to remove a port from a Logical Switch, you must move it to a different Logical Switch. For
example, if you want to remove P4 from logical switch 3, you must assign it to a different Logical
Switch, either logical switch 2, logical switch 4, or logical switch 1 (the default Logical Switch).
• If you assign a port to a Logical Switch, it is automatically removed from the Logical Switch it is currently
assigned to. If you assign P3 to logical switch 3, P3 is automatically removed from logical switch 2.
• If you do not assign a port to any Logical Switch, it remains in the default Logical Switch, as is the case
with ports 0, 1, 7, and 8.
See "Adding and removing ports on a Logical
moving ports on Logical Switch.
A Logical Switch can have as many ports as are available in the chassis. In
ports. You could assign all 10 ports to a single Logical Switch, such as logical switch 2; if you did this,
however, no ports would be available for logical switches 3 and 4.
You can move only F_Ports and E_Ports from one Logical Switch to another. If you want to configure a
different type of port, such as a VE_Port or EX_Port, you must configure the port after you move it.
Some types of ports cannot be moved from the default Logical Switch. See
Fabrics" on page 181 for detailed information about these ports.

Logical Switches and connected devices

You can connect devices to Logical Switches, as shown in
that is connected to H1. In logical switch 3, P4 is an F_Port that is connected to D1. H1 and D1 cannot
communicate with each other because they are in different fabrics, even though they are both connected to
the same physical chassis.
You can also connect other switches to Logical Switches. In
between logical switch 4 and the non-Virtual Fabrics switch. Logical switch 4 is the only Logical Switch that
can communicate with the non-Virtual Fabrics switch and D2, because the other Logical Switches are in
different fabrics.
Physical chassis
Logical switch 1
(Default logical switch)
Fabric ID 128
Logical switch 2
Fabric ID 1
Logical switch 3
Fabric ID 15
Logical switch 4
Fabric ID 8
Figure 12

Logical Switches connected to devices and non-Virtual Fabrics switch

Figure 13 shows a logical representation of the physical chassis and devices in
Figure 13, the devices are isolated into separate fabrics.
176 Managing virtual fabrics
P1
H1
P2
P3
D1
P4
P5
ISL
P6
Switch" on page 186 for instructions for assigning and
Figure 12. In logical switch 2, P2 is an F_Port
Figure 12, P6 is an E_Port that forms an ISL
Switch
Figure 1 1, the chassis has 10
"Supported platforms for Virtual
D2
Figure 12. As shown in