Zoning Information; Types Of Zone Groups; Key Zoning Configuration Steps - HP P2000 Deployment Manual

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HP Virtual SAS Manager (VSM) is the software application used to configure the switch, and create
and manage hardware-based zone groups. These zone groups allocate resources for device load
balancing purposes and for selectively allowing access to data. For planning purposes, zone
groups and assignments can be pre-configured, even if servers or disk drives are not yet installed
in BladeSystem c-Class enclosure device bays or storage enclosure drive bays.
NOTE: While zoning is created and managed through the VSM, the storage is configured,
formatted, and partitioned using software utilities such as the HP Storage Management Utility
(SMU), and Microsoft Disk Manager.

Types of zone groups

Switch port zone groups—Group together one or more SAS ports on the switch. Server bays
assigned this type of zone group have access to the controller enclosures or tape devices
connected to the ports included in the zone. Tape environments and shared storage
environments such as those using the P2000 G3 SAS MSA use switch port zoning. All tape
drives in a tape device will be accessible to any server that has access to the zone group. All
LUNs in the controller enclosure will be accessible to the assigned servers, unless controlled
through the storage management utility for the controller enclosure.

Key zoning configuration steps

Key zoning configuration steps include:
1. Enabling/disabling Multi-initiator mode.
2. Creating zone groups.
3. Assigning zone groups to servers.
4. Capturing the configuration for safekeeping. HP strongly recommends this step, especially in
single-domain configurations.
For more information on zoning, see the HP 6G Virtual SAS Manager user guide, available on
the HP 6Gb SAS BL Switch page of the HP Manuals website http://www.hp.com/support/manuals.
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