Managing Virtual Fabrics
∙
Virtual Fabrics overview
..............................................................................................................................................................................................
267
∙
Logical switch overview
..............................................................................................................................................................................................
268
∙
Management model for logical switches
..........................................................................................................................................................
273
∙
Logical fabric overview
................................................................................................................................................................................................
274
∙
Account management and Virtual Fabrics
.......................................................................................................................................................
279
∙
Setting up IP addresses for a logical switch
....................................................................................................................................................
279
∙
Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics
.............................................................................................................................................................
281
∙
Virtual Fabrics interaction with other Fabric OS features
........................................................................................................................
282
∙
Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics
................................................................................................................................................
283
∙
Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode
...............................................................................................................................................................................
284
∙
Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode
..............................................................................................................................................................................
285
∙
Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values
..........................................................................................................
286
∙
Creating a logical switch or base switch
............................................................................................................................................................
286
∙
Executing a command in a different logical switch context
...................................................................................................................
288
∙
Deleting a logical switch
.............................................................................................................................................................................................
288
∙
Adding and moving ports on a logical switch
................................................................................................................................................
289
∙
Displaying logical switch configuration
.............................................................................................................................................................
290
∙
Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch
........................................................................................................................................................
290
∙
Changing a logical switch to a base switch
.......................................................................................................................................................
291
∙
Configuring a logical switch for XISL use
.......................................................................................................................................................
292
∙
Changing the context to a different logical fabric
........................................................................................................................................
293
∙
Creating a logical fabric using XISLs
..................................................................................................................................................................
293
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:
∙
Logical switch
∙
Logical fabric
∙
Device sharing
This chapter describes the logical switch and logical fabric features. For information about device sharing with Virtual Fabrics, refer to
FC-FC routing and Virtual Fabrics
on page 539.
NOTE
A note on terminology:
Virtual Fabrics
is the name of the suite of features. A
logical fabric
is a type of fabric that you can create
using the Virtual Fabrics suite of features.
NOTE
SNMPv3 is required to manage Virtual Fabrics.
Brocade Fabric OS Administration Guide, 8.0.1
53-1004111-02
267