Account Management And Virtual Fabrics; Supported Platforms For Virtual Fabrics; Supported Port Configurations In The Brocade 5100, 5300, And Va; 40Fc - Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001763-02 Administrator's Manual

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Account management and Virtual Fabrics

Account management and Virtual Fabrics

When user accounts are created, they are assigned a list of logical fabrics to which they can log in
and a home logical fabric (home FID). When you connect to a physical chassis, the home FID
defines the logical switch to which you are logged in by default. You can change to a different
logical switch context, as described in
page 233.
When you are logged in to a logical switch, the system prompt changes to display the FID of that
switch. The following are example prompts for when you are logged in to the default logical switch
(FID = 128) and a user-defined logical switch (with FID = 15):
switch:FID128:admin>
switch:FID15:admin>
See
assigning FIDs to user accounts.

Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics

Virtual Fabrics is supported on the following platforms:
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Some restrictions apply to the ports, depending on the port type and blade type. The following
sections explain these restrictions.
Supported port configurations in the Brocade 5100, 5300, and
VA-40FC
There are no restrictions on the ports in the Brocade 5100, 5300, and VA-40FC; however, the
following rules apply:
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Brocade 5100
Brocade 5300
Brocade VA-40FC, in Native mode only
Brocade DCX
Brocade DCX-4S
Any port can belong to any logical switch (including the base and default logical switches), with
the exception that F_Ports cannot belong to the base switch.
The default logical switch can use XISLs.
The default logical switch can also be a base logical switch.
"Changing the context to a different logical fabric"
on page 83 for information about creating user accounts and
on
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide
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