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Persistenly disable the switches

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You must disable the switches in the fabric persistently so that you can modify its configuration.

About this task

You disable the switches by running the commands on the switch command line; the commands used for this are not ONTAP commands.

Step

Persistently disable the switch:

  • For Brocade switches, use the switchCfgPersistentDisable command.

  • For Cisco switches, use the suspend command.

The following command disables a Brocade switch persistently:

FC_switch_A_1:admin> switchCfgPersistentDisable

The following command disables a Cisco switch:

vsan [vsna #] suspend