Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual page 60

About Zoning
• Zones can vary in size.
• Devices can belong to more than one zone.
• A zoneset consists of one or more zones.
• A zoneset can be activated or deactivated as a single entity across all switches in the fabric.
• Only one zoneset can be activated at any time.
• A zone can be a member of more than one zoneset.
• An MDS switch can have a maximum of 1000 zonesets.
• Zoning can be administered from any switch in the fabric.
• When you activate a zone (from any switch), all switches in the fabric receive the active zoneset.
• If a new switch is added to an existing fabric, zone sets are acquired by the new switch.
• Zone changes can be configured nondisruptively. New zones and zone sets can be activated without
interrupting traffic on unaffected ports or devices.
• Zone membership criteria is based mainly on WWNs or FC IDs.
• Port world wide name (pWWN)—Specifies the pWWN of an N port attached to the switch as a
• Fabric pWWN—Specifies the WWN of the fabric port (switch port's WWN). This membership is
• 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.
• 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 an MDS domain and additionally specifies
• IPv4 address—Specifies the IPv4 address (and optionally the subnet mask) of an attached device.
• IPv6 address—The IPv6 address of an attached device in 128 bits in colon(:)-separated hexadecimal
• Symbolic-nodename—Specifies the member symbolic node name. The maximum length is 240
• 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.
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Additionally, full zone sets are distributed to all switches in the fabric, if this feature is enabled in
the source switch.
member of the zone.
also referred to as port-based zoning.
This membership is also referred to as interface-based zoning.
a port belonging to a non-Cisco switch.
format.
characters.
Configuring and Managing Zones