Disabling Virtual Fabrics On A Discovered Device; Creating A Logical Switch Or Base Switch - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade BladeSystem 4/24 User Manual

1. Right-click the physical chassis in the topology and select Enable Virtual Fabric.
2. Click OK on the warning message.

Disabling Virtual Fabrics on a discovered device

To disable Virtual Fabrics, right-click the physical chassis in the Chassis group in the Product List
and select Disable Virtual Fabric.
ATTENTION
Disabling Virtual Fabrics causes the physical chassis to reboot.
ATTENTION
Disabling Virtual Fabrics deletes all logical switches and returns port management to the physical
chassis. If these logical switches are participating in a fabric, all affected fabrics will be disrupted.

Creating a logical switch or base switch

NOTE
Virtual Fabrics must be enabled on at least one physical chassis in your fabric.
Optionally, you can define the logical switch to be a base switch. Each chassis can have only one
base switch.
1. Select a switch with Virtual Fabrics enabled on the Product List or Connectivity Map and select
2. Select the physical chassis from which you want to create a logical switch in the Chassis list.
3. Select one of the following in the Existing Logical Switches table:
4. Click New Switch.
5. Click the Fabric tab, if necessary.
6. Enter a fabric identifier in the Logical Fabric ID field.
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For a list of physical chassis that are Virtual Fabrics-capable, refer to
requirements" on page 554.
Note that all ports are placed in the default logical switch and any EX_ports are persistently
disabled.
Configure > Logical Switches.
The Logical Switches dialog box displays.
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A physical chassis in the Discovered Logical Switches node.
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A NewFabric logical switch template in the Discovered Logical Switches node.
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The Undiscovered Logical Switches node.
If you select a logical switch template, the fabric-wide settings for the logical switch are
obtained from the settings in the template.
If you select a physical chassis or the Undiscovered Logical Switches node, the fabric-wide
settings for the logical switch are the default settings.
The New Logical Switch dialog box displays.
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