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Managing Virtual Fabrics

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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. Virtual Fabrics 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:
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Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
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Logical switch overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
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Logical fabric overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
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Management model for logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
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Account management and Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
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Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
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Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
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Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
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Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
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Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values . . . . . . . . . 291
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Creating a logical switch or base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
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Executing a command in a different logical switch context . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
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Deleting a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
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Adding and moving ports on a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
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Displaying logical switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
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Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
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Changing a logical switch to a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
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Setting up IP addresses for a Virtual Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
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Removing an IP address for a Virtual Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
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Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
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Changing the context to a different logical fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
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Creating a logical fabric using XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
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