There are different situations you will be encountering on your daily operations. There could be a chance that the switch is beyond its capacity or an out of support model. otherwise, you may be trying to build a new fabric using least used switches in an existing fabric.
On either situations, the removal process of Brocade switches from an existing fabric is fairly same.
All that you have to do is to follow a step by step approach
1, Disable/Remove the ISLs to the switch which you want to remove
2, disconnect/migrate the cable to new switch
3, disable the switch and clear the configuration.
Lets see how can we do that!
if the switch is no longer used by any hosts or storage arrays, make sure you don't have any cables plugged in to any ports. the other step is to isolate the switch from active fabric. To do that, you can
disable the ISLs(disable the E ports)
to disable the switch, issue the command as below
Once the switch is disabled, you can disable the configuration which is presently active on the switch(this step must be followed if you are going to reuse the switch). To disable an active configuration, run command as below
After disabling the configuration, next step is to clear the configuration so that you wont face any issues while building a new fabric. To do that issue the command as below.
Once configuration is cleared, now its time to save the settings, run the command as indicated below
its Done! now your switch is free from configuration and can be used for building a new fabric.
On either situations, the removal process of Brocade switches from an existing fabric is fairly same.
All that you have to do is to follow a step by step approach
1, Disable/Remove the ISLs to the switch which you want to remove
2, disconnect/migrate the cable to new switch
3, disable the switch and clear the configuration.
Lets see how can we do that!
if the switch is no longer used by any hosts or storage arrays, make sure you don't have any cables plugged in to any ports. the other step is to isolate the switch from active fabric. To do that, you can
disable the ISLs(disable the E ports)
to disable the switch, issue the command as below
SANSW01:admin> switchdisable
Once the switch is disabled, you can disable the configuration which is presently active on the switch(this step must be followed if you are going to reuse the switch). To disable an active configuration, run command as below
SANSW01:admin> cfgdisable
You are about to disable zoning configuration. This
action will disable any previous zoning configuration enabled.
Do you want to disable zoning configuration? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Updating flash ...
After disabling the configuration, next step is to clear the configuration so that you wont face any issues while building a new fabric. To do that issue the command as below.
SANSW01:admin> cfgclear
The Clear All action will clear all Aliases, Zones, FA Zones
and configurations in the Defined configuration.
cfgSave may be run to close the transaction or cfgTransAbort
may be run to cancel the transaction.
Do you really want to clear all configurations? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Once configuration is cleared, now its time to save the settings, run the command as indicated below
SANSW01:admin> cfgsave
You are about to save the Defined zoning configuration. This
action will only save the changes on Defined configuration.
Any changes made on the Effective configuration will not
take effect until it is re-enabled.
Do you want to save Defined zoning configuration only? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Updating flash ...
its Done! now your switch is free from configuration and can be used for building a new fabric.
SANSW01:admin> cfgshow
Defined configuration:
no configuration defined
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