Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 85)

FIGURE 2 Identifying the blades
2. Blade validation
The validation process includes determining the compatibility between the blades selected for the
swap operation:
• Blade technology. Both blades must be of compatible technology types (for example, Fibre
Channel to Fibre Channel, Ethernet to Ethernet, application to application, and so on).
• Port count. Both blades must support the same number of front ports (for example, 16 ports to 16
ports, 32 ports to 32 ports, 48 ports to 48 ports, and so on).
• Availability. The ports on the destination blade must be available for the swap operation and not
attached to any other devices.
3. Port preparation
The process of preparing ports for a swap operation includes basic operations such as ensuring the
source and destination ports are offline, or verifying that none of the destination ports have failed.
The preparation process also includes any special handling of ports associated with logical switches.
For example, the following figure shows the source blade has ports in a logical switch or logical
fabric, and the corresponding destination ports must be included in the associated logical switch or
logical fabric of the source ports.
Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks
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