The XISL will take care of the trunking of the fabrics on either sides.

Warning though The switch will reboot immediately after hitting Y.

WARNING: This is a disruptive operation that requires a reboot to take effect.

You can see in which FID context you currently are in the identifier in front of your username.

Creation of a base switch requires that the proposed new base switch on this system be disabled.

Lets also switch context to FID8 when configuring the ports for the base switch by.

Please enable your portsswitch when you are ready to continue.

Im working with a 5300, so im limited to 4 logical switches at time of writing this.

It does not really matter in which context you create the switches, as long you have permissions to do so.

The logical switches dont have to have the same port assignment configuration.

I dont think i have to write up the commands for the second switch, youll get it.

When done right, youll have 4 Fabrics on your switches: One default, one base, and two normal logical switches.

The fabricshow command will output two switches in each fabric, depending on the cli context youre in.

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