Changing From Basic Zoning To Enhanced Zoning - Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring and Managing Zones
Basic Zoning
To retrieve the results of the
activation per switch basis, the
managing switch provides a
combined status about the
activation. It does not identify the
failure switch.
To distribute the zoning database,
you must reactivate the same zone
set. The reactivation may affect
hardware changes for hard zoning
on the local switch and on remote
switches.
The Cisco-specific zone member
types (symbolic node name, and
other types) may be used by other
non-Cisco switches. During a
merge, the Cisco-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

You can change to the enhanced zoning mode from the basic mode.
Step 1 Verify that all switches in the fabric can operate in the enhanced mode.
Step 2 If one or more switches cannot operate in the enhanced mode, then your request to move to enhanced mode is rejected.
Step 3 Set the operation mode to enhanced zoning mode.
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Enhanced Zoning
Retrieves the activation results and
the nature of the problem from
each remote switch.
Implements changes to the zoning
database and distributes it without
reactivation.
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 Nexus 5000 Series NX-OS SAN Switching Configuration Guide, Release 5.2(1)N1(1)
Enhanced Zoning
Enhanced Zoning Advantages
Enhanced error reporting eases the
troubleshooting process
Distribution of zone sets without
activation avoids hardware changes
for hard zoning in the switches.
Unique vendor type.
The fWWN-based member type is
standardized.
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