Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.3.0 (53-1001336-02, November 2009)

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Blade swapping

unforeseen error does occur during the bladeSwap command, an entry will be made into the

RASlog and all ports that have been swapped as part of the blade swap operation will be swapped

back. On successful completion of the command, the source and destination blades are left in a

disabled state allowing you to complete the cable move.

Blade swapping is based on port swapping and has the same restrictions:

• Shared area ports cannot be swapped.

• Ports that are part of a trunk group cannot be swapped.

• GbE ports cannot be swapped.

• Swapping ports between different logical switches is not supported. The ports on the source

and destination blades need to be in the same logical switch.

• Undetermined board types cannot be swapped. For example, a blade swap will fail if the blade

type cannot be identified.

• Blade swapping is not supported when swapping to a different model of blade or a different

port count. For example, you cannot swap an FC8-32 blade with an FC8-48 port blade.

NOTE

This feature is not supported on the FX8-24 DCX Extension blade.

Swapping blades

The bladeSwap command performs the following operations:

1. Blade selection

The selection process includes selecting the switch and the blades to be affected by the swap

operation. The source and destination blades are identified to begin the process.

FIGURE 1 Identify the blades

2. Blade validation

The validation process includes determining the compatibility between the blades selected for

the swap operation: