Cisco Nexus 5500 Series NX-OS Configuration Manual page 152

Information About Zoning
• Zoning can be administered from any switch in the fabric.
• Zone changes can be configured nondisruptively.
• Zone membership can be specified using the following identifiers:
The read-only zone feature is not supported on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches.
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For N ports attached to the switch over a virtual Fibre Channel interface, you can specify zone membership
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using the pWWN of the N port, the FC ID of the N port, or the fabric pWWN of the virtual Fibre Channel
interface.
• Default zone membership includes all ports or WWNs that do not have a specific membership association.
Access between default zone members is controlled by the default zone policy.
• You can configure up to 8000 zones per VSAN and a maximum of 8000 zones for all VSANs on the
switch.
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◦ A zone set can be activated or deactivated as a single entity across all switches in the fabric.
◦ Only one zone set can be activated at any time.
◦ A zone can be a member of more than one zone set.
◦ A zone switch can have a maximum of 500 zone sets.
◦ When you activate a zone (from any switch), all switches in the fabric receive the active zone set.
Additionally, full zone sets are distributed to all switches in the fabric, if this feature is enabled in
the source switch.
◦ If a new switch is added to an existing fabric, zone sets are acquired by the new switch.
◦ New zones and zone sets can be activated without interrupting traffic on unaffected ports or devices.
◦Port world wide name (pWWN)—Specifies the pWWN of an N port attached to the switch as a
member of the zone.
◦Fabric pWWN—Specifies the WWN of the fabric port (switch port's WWN). This membership
is also referred to as port-based zoning.
◦FC ID—Specifies the FC ID of an N port attached to the switch as a member of the zone.
◦Interface and switch WWN (sWWN)—Specifies the interface of a switch identified by the sWWN.
This membership is also referred to as interface-based zoning.
◦Interface and domain ID—Specifies the interface of a switch identified by the domain ID.
◦Domain ID and port number—Specifies the domain ID of a Cisco switch domain and additionally
specifies a port belonging to a non-Cisco switch.
Configuring and Managing Zones
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