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How can you make a new Brocade switch take over for a principal switch

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Answer

If you have redundant connections from other switches, you can ( remove/reboot/turn-off ) the principal SAN switch. One of the subordinate switches will assume the role of the principal switch. This will not result in the loss of any information. All the switches in a fabric share the same set of information such as the zoning table. They are designed to be redundant and to assume the principal switch role any time when the principal switch fails.

On the principal switch run the commands:

1. cfgsave to save config that is not saved.
2. write mem, to save your running config
3. reload or sysshutdown to powerdown or restart your switch without pulling the power cable, type

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