Brocade New Switch and Merging of Switch in to the existing Fabrics

New SW:

Rack mount it ,  power on the SW.Connect through serial port, default IP Add is 10.1.56.103./255.255.255.0 in case of Dir 10.1.56.74/75 with admin login:

  1. Set the IPaddress(ipaddrshow/ipaddrset),
  2. set the time with either NTP server IP(tsclockserver cmd) or tstimezone –interactive cmd
  3. check the license(licenseshow)
  4. add the license with licenseadd cmd
  5. Atleast Full fabric / XX domain licenses to form ISLs.
  6. Trunking licenses for trunking(trunks will be formed while connected through common speed, same quad/octet)
  7. give a switch name(switchname ….)
  8. change the passwords and keep it in library
  9. always ask one time password of root , while taking the new sw from any vendor and keep it in library for further troubleshooting
  10. do a portstatsclear, portlogclear
  11. disable the SW with switchdisable cmd
  12. clear the configuration with cfgclear cmd

Set the fabric.ops parameters through configure cmd(specially unique Domain ID(1-239), Pid format, data field size, )

fabric.domain:20
fabric.ididmode:0
fabric.ops.BBCredit:16
fabric.ops.E_D_TOV:5000
fabric.ops.R_A_TOV:10000
fabric.ops.bladeFault_on_hwErrlevel:0
fabric.ops.dataFieldSize:2048
fabric.ops.max_hops:7
fabric.ops.mode.fcpProbeDisable:0
fabric.ops.mode.isolate:0
fabric.ops.mode.longDistance:1
fabric.ops.mode.noClassF:0
fabric.ops.mode.pidFormat:1
fabric.ops.mode.tachyonCompat:0
fabric.ops.mode.unicastOnly:0
fabric.ops.mode.useCsCtl:0
fabric.ops.vc.class.2:2
fabric.ops.vc.class.3:3
fabric.ops.vc.config:0xc0
fabric.ops.vc.linkCtrl:0
fabric.ops.vc.multicast:7
fabric.ops.wan_tov:0
fabric.principalSwSelMode:0

  1. enable the switch with switchenable cmd
  2. reboot the switch with reboot cmd
  3. take a config backup with configupload cmd

 if you want to do an FOS upgrade, then do it.

For the new sw , while you first connect the hosts, check the hosts HBA driver and FW with Brocade compatibility matrix,

create a config file with cfgcreate to do the first time zoning

For merging of the SWs, do the above activities but set the Fabric.ops parameters exactly same as the existing SW except Domain ID.

  1. Then disable the new SW,
  2. Connect the ISL ,
  3. Enable the switch
  4. check it with fabricshow, islshow, trunkshow.
  5. check the utilization of the ISLs with portperfshow

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