Rules For Nicknames; Task 13: Complete The Planning Worksheet - McDATA StorageWorks 2/140 - Director Switch Planning Manual

Configuration Planning Tasks
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Rules for Nicknames

Task 13: Complete the Planning Worksheet

McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual
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Nicknames can be up to 32 alphanumeric characters in length.
Spaces, hyphens, and underscores are allowed within the nickname.
Each nickname must be unique (corresponding to a unique WWN).
Example nicknames include:
Fabric-1.
Host system-1.
DASD_001.
The planning worksheet included in this task is an eight-page form
that depicts port assignments for a director, switch, or SAN router.
The worksheet lists 256 ports, equal to the capability of the highest
port-count product described in this publication. The worksheet
provides fields to identify devices that connect to the ports.
Transfer information from the configuration diagram (completed
while performing Task 11: Diagram the Planned
worksheet, and transfer port names and nicknames (assigned while
performing Task 12: Assign Port Names and
indicate all unused ports. Retain the planning worksheet as part of a
permanent record.
Configuration) to the
Nicknames). In addition,