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5 In the Welcome window of the setup wizard, click Next.
6 In the CLARiiON AX-Series window, select and click Next. Follow the
onscreen instructions to complete the installation.
7 Click Yes to reboot the system.
Implementing Zoning on a Fibre Channel
Switched Fabric
A Fibre Channel switched fabric consists of one or more Fibre Channel
switches that provide high-speed connections between servers and storage
devices. The switches in a Fibre Channel fabric provide a connection through
inbound and outbound points from one device (sender) to another device or
switch (receiver) on the network. If the data is sent to another switch, the
process repeats itself until a connection is established between the sender and
the receiver.
Fibre Channel switches provide you with the ability to set up barriers between
different devices and operating environments. These barriers create logical
fabric subsets with minimal software and hardware intervention. Similar to
subnets in the client/server network, logical fabric subsets divide a fabric into
similar groups of components, regardless of their proximity to one another.
The logical subsets that form these barriers are called zones.
Zoning automatically and transparently enforces access of information to the
zone devices. More than one PowerEdge cluster configuration can share
Dell/EMC storage system(s) in a switched fabric using Fibre Channel switch
zoning. By using Fibre Channel switches to implement zoning, you can
segment the SANs to isolate heterogeneous servers and storage systems from
each other.
Using Worldwide Port Name Zoning
PowerEdge cluster configurations support worldwide port name zoning.
A worldwide name (WWN) is a unique numeric identifier assigned to Fibre
Channel interfaces, such as HBA ports, storage processor (SP) ports, and
Fibre Channel to SCSI bridges or storage network controllers (SNCs).
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