Changing From Enhanced Zoning To Basic Zoning; Enabling Enhanced Zoning - Cisco DS-X9530-SF1-K9 - Supervisor-1 Module - Control Processor Configuration Manual

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Configuring and Managing Zones

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After moving from basic zoning to enhanced zoning we recommend that you save the running

configuration.

Changing from Enhanced Zoning to Basic Zoning

The standards do not allow you to move back to basic zoning. However, Cisco MDS switches allow this

move to enable you to downgrade and upgrade to other Cisco SAN-OS releases.

To change to the basic zoning mode from the enhanced mode, follow these steps:

Verify that the active and full zone set do not contain any configuration that is specific to the enhanced

zoning mode.

If such configurations exist, delete them before proceeding with this procedure. If you do not delete the

existing configuration, the Cisco SAN-OS software automatically removes them.

Set the operation mode to basic zoning mode. By doing so, you will automatically start a session, acquire

a fabric wide lock, distribute the zoning information using the basic zoning data structure, apply the

configuration changes and release the lock from all switches in the fabric. All switches in the fabric then

move to basic zoning mode.

If a switch running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.0(1b), or later, with enhanced zoning enabled is

downgraded to Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.3(4), or earlier, the switch comes up in basic zoning mode

and thus cannot join the fabric because all the other switches in the fabric are still in enhanced zoning

By default, the enhanced zoning feature is disabled in all switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.

To enable enhanced zoning in a VSAN, follow these steps:

switch# config t

switch(config)#

switch(config)# zone mode enhanced vsan 3000

Set zoning mode command initiated. Check zone status

switch(config)# no zone mode enhanced vsan 150

Set zoning mode command initiated. Check zone status

OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x

About Enhanced Zoning

Enters configuration mode.

Enables enhanced zoning in the

specified VSAN.

Disables enhanced zoning in the

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