Enabling Enhanced Zoning; Creating Attribute Groups; Merging The Database - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Enhanced Zoning
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Enabling Enhanced Zoning

By default, the enhanced zoning feature is disabled in all switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.
To enable enhanced zoning in a VSAN using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Expand a VSAN and then select a zone set in the Logical Domains pane.
Step 1
You see the zone set configuration in the Information pane.
Click the Enhanced tab.
Step 2
You see the current enhanced zoning configuration.
Set the Action drop-down menu to enhanced to enable enhanced zoning in this VSAN.
Step 3
Click Apply Changes to save these changes.
Step 4

Creating Attribute Groups

In enhanced mode, you can directly configure attributes using attribute groups.
To configure attribute groups, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide.

Merging the Database

The merge behavior depends on the fabric-wide merge control setting:
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Table 30-4
Local Database
The databases contain zone sets with the same name
different zones, aliases, and attributes groups.
The databases contains a zone, zone alias, or zone
attribute group object with same name
members.
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If a switch running Cisco SAN-OS Release 2.0(1b), or later, with enhanced zoning enabled is
downgraded to Cisco SAN-OS Release 1.3(4), or earlier, the switch comes up in basic zoning
mode and thus cannot join the fabric because all the other switches in the fabric are still in
enhanced zoning mode.
Restrict—If the two database are not identical, the ISLs between the switches are isolated.
Allow—The two databases are merged using the merge rules specified in
Database Zone Merge Status
Adjacent Database
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Merge Status
1
but Successful.
Failed.
1
but different
Configuring and Managing Zones
Table 30-4.
Results of the Merge
The union of the local and
adjacent databases.
ISLs are isolated.
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