Do we ever enable the new switches

[estarz]

Page URL

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-metrocluster/maintain/task_upgrade_to_new_brocade_switches.html

Page title

Upgrading to new Brocade FC switches

Summary

Will perform a 6505 to G720 migration for a customer and thought I'd check the documented procedure before I start my own. So in principle, my own plan was OK. Disable old and new switches in Fabric 1, move cables to new switches, enable new switches and check connectivity. Repeat on fabric 2.

But reading the docs, it just wants me to switchcfgpersistentdisable but never enable again? Or is it on applying the RCF, where we reset the switch to defaults, that it gets enabled? But then why explicitly disable the new switches...

In this particular case we have staged the new switches and already configured them a few weeks ago. So we will just disable them before moving cables.

Feel the docs might need a little bit of clarification.

Thanks, Erik

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[netapp-aoife]

Hi @estarz thanks very much for this feedback. We'll investigate the issue and update the documentation accordingly.

[netapp-aoife]

Hi, thanks again for this feedback. We've made some updates to address this issue here: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-metrocluster/maintain/task_upgrade_to_new_brocade_switches.html