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Chapter 30 Configuring and Managing Zones
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About Zone-Based Traffic Priority

The zoning feature provides an additional segregation mechanism to prioritize select zones in a fabric
and set up access control between devices. Using this feature, you can configure the Quality of Service
(QoS) priority as a zone attribute. You can assign the QoS traffic priority attribute to be high, medium,
or low. By default, zones with no specified priority are implicitly assigned a low priority. See the
Versus Zone-Based QoS" section on page 66-5
To use this feature, you need to obtain the ENTERPRISE_PKG license (see
Installing
page
This feature allows SAN administrators to configure QoS in terms of a familiar data flow identification
paradigm. You can configure this attribute on a zone-wide basis rather than between zone members.
If zone-based QoS is implemented in a switch, you cannot configure the interop mode in that VSAN.
Caution

Configuring Zone-Based Traffic Priority

To configure the zone priority using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Expand a VSAN and then select a zone set in the Logical Domains pane.
Step 1
Click the Policies tab in the Information pane.
Step 2
You see the Zone policy information in the Information pane (see
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
About Broadcast Zoning, page 30-35
Configuring Broadcast Zoning, page 30-36
About LUN Zoning, page 30-36
Configuring a LUN-Based Zone, page 30-37
Assigning LUNs to Storage Subsystems, page 30-38
About Read-Only Zones, page 30-38
Configuring Read-Only Zones, page 30-39
Licenses") and you must enable QoS in the switch (see the
66-4).
for more information.
"About Data Traffic" section on
Figure 30-32).
Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
Advanced Zone Attributes
"VSAN
Chapter 10, "Obtaining and
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