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Blade swapping

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Swapping blades

The bladeSwap command performs the following operations:

1. Blade selection

The selection process includes selecting the switch and the blades to be affected by the swap 
operation. 

 shows the source and destination blades are identified to begin the 

process.

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Identifying the blades 

2. Blade validation

The validation process includes determining the compatibility between the blades selected for 
the swap operation: 

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Blade technology. Both blades must be of compatible technology types (for example, Fibre 
Channel to Fibre Channel, Ethernet to Ethernet, application to application, etc).

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Port Count. Both blades must support the same number of front ports. For example, 
16-ports to 16-ports, 32-ports to 32-ports, 48-ports to 48-ports, and so on.

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Availability. The ports on the destination blade must be available for the swap operation 
and not attached to any other devices.

3. Port preparation

The process of preparing ports for a swap operation includes basic operations such as insuring 
the source and destination ports are offline, or verifying that none of the destination ports 
have failed.

The preparation process also includes any special handling of ports associated with logical 
switches. For example 

 shows the source blade has ports in a logical switch or logical 

fabric, then the corresponding destination ports must be included in the associated logical 
switch or logical fabric of the source ports.