Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v12.0.0 (53-1002696-01, April 2013)

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Virtual Fabrics requirements
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• Discover a Virtual Fabrics-enabled seed physical chassis running Fabric OS 6.2.0 or later with
Virtual Fabrics enabled, and at least one logical switch defined on the core switch. The physical
chassis displays as a virtual switch.
• Upgrade a physical chassis already in your SAN to Fabric OS 6.2.0 or later. Virtual Fabrics is
disabled by default. This switch displays as a legacy switch. Once upgraded, you must enable
Virtual Fabrics.
For more information about enabling Virtual Fabrics on a physical chassis, refer to “Enabling Virtual
Fabrics” on page 515.
Table 63 lists the Virtual Fabrics-capable physical chassis and the number of logical switches
allowed for each of those physical chassis.
NOTE
The 8 Gbps Extension Switch does not support base switches.
For the 8 Gbps Extension Switch, any port can be assigned to the logical switch or default logical
switch. For the other switches, any port can be assigned to any logical switch (logical switch,
default logical switch, or base switch).
Depending on the logical switch type, the backbone chassis have the port requirements shown in
Table 64.
TABLE 63 Maximum number of logical switches per chassis
Physical chassis Number of logical switches allowed
40-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch 3
80-port, 8 Gbps FC Switch 4
48-port, 16 Gbps FC Switch 4
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1. The maximum is 3 logical switches if you are using FC-FC routing.
8 Gbps Extension Switch 4
8-slot Backbone Chassis 8
4-slot Backbone Chassis 8
TABLE 64 Blade and port types supported on logical switches for backbone chassis
Logical switch type Ports
Default logical switch • Extension Blade—E_Ports, F_Ports, GE_Ports, and VE_Ports
• Application Platform Blade—E_Ports and F_Ports
• FC 10-6 ISL Blade—E_Ports and F_Ports
• Encryption Blade—E_Ports, F_Ports, and Encryption ports
• FC 8 GB Port Blade—E_Ports and F_Ports
• FC 16 GB Port Blade—E_Ports and F_Ports
• 10 Gig FCoE port Blade—E_Ports and F_Ports
• 8 Gbps Extension Blade
- FC ports: E_Ports, F_Ports, and VE_Ports
- GE ports: VE_Ports
• 8-slot and 4-slot Backbone Chassis— ICL ports