Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001763-01, June 2010)

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Account management and Virtual Fabrics

When user accounts are created, they are assigned a list of logical fabrics to which they can log in

and a home logical fabric (home FID). When you connect to a physical chassis, the home FID

defines the logical switch to which you are logged in by default. You can change to a different

logical switch context, as described in “Changing the context to a different logical fabric” on

page 233.

When you are logged in to a logical switch, the system prompt changes to display the FID of that

switch. The following are example prompts for when you are logged in to the default logical switch

(FID = 128) and a user-defined logical switch (with FID = 15):

switch:FID128:admin>

switch:FID15:admin>

See “Managing User Accounts” on page 83 for information about creating user accounts and

assigning FIDs to user accounts.

Supported platforms for Virtual Fabrics

Virtual Fabrics is supported on the following platforms:

• Brocade 5100

• Brocade 5300

• Brocade VA-40FC, in Native mode only

• Brocade DCX

• Brocade DCX-4S

Some restrictions apply to the ports, depending on the port type and blade type. The following

sections explain these restrictions.

Supported port configurations in the Brocade 5100, 5300, and

VA-40FC

There are no restrictions on the ports in the Brocade 5100, 5300, and VA-40FC; however, the

following rules apply:

• Any port can belong to any logical switch (including the base and default logical switches), with

the exception that F_Ports cannot belong to the base switch.

• The default logical switch can use XISLs.

• The default logical switch can also be a base logical switch.