Verifying Enhanced Zone Information; Compacting The Zone Database; Zone And Zone Set Analysis - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Configuring and Managing Zones
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5

Verifying Enhanced Zone Information

The following example shows how to display the zone status for a specified VSAN:
switch# show zone status vsan 2

Compacting the Zone Database

You can delete excess zones and compact the zone database for the VSAN.
A merge failure occurs when a switch supports more than 2000 zones per VSAN but its neighbor does
Note
not. Also, zone set activation can fail if the switch has more than 2000 zones per VSAN and not all switches
in the fabric support more than 2000 zones per VSAN.
To delete zones and compact the zone database for a VSAN, perform this task:
Procedure
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Zone and Zone Set Analysis

To better manage the zones and zone sets on your switch, you can display zone and zone set information using
the show zone analysis command.
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Command or Action
switch(config)# no system default zone
default-zone permit
switch(config)# system default zone
distribute full
switch(config)# no system default zone
distribute full
Command or Action
switch# configuration terminal
switch(config)# no zone name zone-name
vsan vsan-id
switch(config)# zone compact vsan
vsan-id
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide
Verifying Enhanced Zone Information
Purpose
Configures deny (default) as the default zoning
policy for new VSANs on the switch.
Enables full zone database distribution as the default
for new VSANs on the switch.
Disables (default) full zone database distribution as
the default for new VSANs on the switch. Only the
active zone database is distributed.
Purpose
Enters configuration mode.
Deletes a zone to reduce the number of zones to
2000 or fewer.
Compacts the zone database for the specified
VSAN to recover the zone ID released when a
zone was deleted.
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