Dell POWEREDGE M1000E - Manual (Page 275)

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Chapter
10
Managing Virtual Fabrics
In this chapter
• Virtual Fabrics overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
• Logical switch overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
• Logical fabric overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
• Management model for logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
• Account management and Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
• Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
• Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
• Enabling Virtual Fabrics mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
• Disabling Virtual Fabrics mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
• Configuring logical switches to use basic configuration values . . . . . . . . . 291
• Creating a logical switch or base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
• Executing a command in a different logical switch context . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
• Deleting a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
• Adding and moving ports on a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
• Displaying logical switch configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
• Changing the fabric ID of a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
• Changing a logical switch to a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
• Setting up IP addresses for a Virtual Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
• Removing an IP address for a Virtual Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
• Configuring a logical switch to use XISLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
• Changing the context to a different logical fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
• Creating a logical fabric using XISLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
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