Logical Fabric Overview; Figure 24 Logical Switches Connected To Devices And Non-Virtual Fabric Switch; Figure 25 Logical Switches In A Single Chassis Belong To Separate Fabrics - Brocade Communications Systems 1606 Administrator's Manual

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Logical fabric overview

You can also connect other switches to logical switches. In
ISL 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.
FIGURE 24
Figure 25
shown in
FIGURE 25
If you want to allow device sharing across fabrics in a Virtual Fabrics environment, see
Routing and Virtual Fabrics"

Logical fabric overview

A logical fabric is a fabric that contains at least one logical switch. The four fabrics shown in
Figure 24
You can connect logical switches to non-Virtual Fabric switches and to other logical switches.
You connect logical switches to non-Virtual Fabric switches using an ISL, as shown in
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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
Logical switches connected to devices and non-Virtual Fabric switch
shows a logical representation of the physical chassis and devices in
Figure 25, the devices are isolated into separate fabrics.
Switch 1
Fabric 128
Switch 2
Fabric 1
Logical switches in a single chassis belong to separate fabrics
on page 492.
and Figure 25 are logical fabrics because they each have at least one logical switch.
Figure
P1
H1
P2
P3
D1
P4
P5
ISL
P6
H1 D1
Switch 3
Fabric 15
24, P6 is an E_Port that forms an
D2
Switch
Figure
Switch 4
Fabric 8
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