Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 86)

FIGURE 3 Blade swap with Virtual Fabrics during the swap
4. Port swapping
The swap ports action is an iteration of the portSwap command for each port on the source blade
to each corresponding port on the destination blade.
As shown in the following figure, the blades can be divided into different logical switches as long as
they are divided the same way. If slot 1 and slot 2 ports 0 through 7 are all in the same logical
switch, then blade swapping slot 1 to slot 2 will work. The entire blade does not need to be in the
same partition.
FIGURE 4 Blade swap with Virtual Fabrics after the swap
Swapping blades
Use the following procedure to swap blades.
1. Connect to the Backbone and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the bladeSwap command.
Swapping blades
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