Changing From Basic Zoning To Enhanced Zoning; Changing From Enhanced Zoning To Basic Zoning - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Chapter 30 Configuring and Managing Zones
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Table 30-3 Advantages of Enhanced Zoning (continued)
Basic Zoning
The MDS-specific zone member types (IPv4
address, IPv6 address, symbolic node name, and
other types) may be used by other non-Cisco
switches. During a merge, the MDS-specific types
can be misunderstood by the non-Cisco switches.
The fWWN-based zone membership is only
supported in Cisco interop mode.

Changing from Basic Zoning to Enhanced Zoning

To change to the enhanced zoning mode from the basic mode, follow these steps:
Step 1 Verify that all switches in the fabric are capable of working in the enhanced mode.
If one or more switches are not capable of working in enhanced mode, then your request to move to
enhanced mode is rejected.
Step 2 Set the operation mode to enhanced zoning mode. By doing so, you will automatically start a session,
acquire a fabric wide lock, distribute the active and full zoning database using the enhanced zoning data
structures, distribute zoning policies and then release the lock. All switches in the fabric then move to
the enhanced zoning mode.
After moving from basic zoning to enhanced zoning we recommend that you save the running
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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
Step 1
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
Step 2
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.
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Enhanced Zoning
Provides a vendor ID along with a
vendor-specific type value to uniquely
identify a member type.
Supports fWWN-based membership in
the standard interop mode (interop
mode 1).
Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
Enhanced Zoning
Enhanced Zoning Advantages
Unique vendor type.
The fWWN-based member
type is standardized.
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