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LUNs on Fabric 2 not available to hosts after moving switch3 to Fabric3 from Fabric2 in Brocade Network Advisor.
One of my colleagues moved a Brocade 200E Switch(Switch3) from Fabric2 to newly created Fabric3 in Brocade Network advisor.
As soon as that was done the log in Network advisor says the ISL between switch2 & switch3 was broken.
Switch3 was the master in Fabric2.
Topology of Fabric2 was :
Switch 1 ---> Switch2 ----> Switch3
Also, if I run the "switchshow" command on the Switch2 then all ports show as disabled.
This would explain why ISL is broken but I am not sure why all ports got disabled on switch2?
Has creating Fabric3 in Network Advisor introduced a third fabric with a different Fabric ID?
Is it safe to enable the ports on Switch2(especially ISL port)?
And can we safely remove switch3 from Fabric3 and discover it back in Fabric2?
Would it retain its config if we do that?
Would this cause any other problems?
As soon as that was done the log in Network advisor says the ISL between switch2 & switch3 was broken.
Switch3 was the master in Fabric2.
Topology of Fabric2 was :
Switch 1 ---> Switch2 ----> Switch3
Also, if I run the "switchshow" command on the Switch2 then all ports show as disabled.
This would explain why ISL is broken but I am not sure why all ports got disabled on switch2?
Has creating Fabric3 in Network Advisor introduced a third fabric with a different Fabric ID?
Is it safe to enable the ports on Switch2(especially ISL port)?
And can we safely remove switch3 from Fabric3 and discover it back in Fabric2?
Would it retain its config if we do that?
Would this cause any other problems?
Makes sense that if you move it to a new fabric it will have a different fabric ID and as the new fabric has no config one would expect all the zoning and port configurations to disappear from it. Putting it back in the fabric it was removed from will restore some of the config as it's stored on the other switch but that probably depends on whether you have port or WWN based zoning.
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