Zoning; Zoning Limits; Zoning Parameter Limits - HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 User Manual

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Zoning

Zoning defines the communication paths in a fabric. A zone consists of initiator and target ports in
the SAN. Ports can communicate only with other ports in their zone. However, ports can be
members of more than one zone. To zone devices in a fabric, the fabric's principal switch must be
an HP switch and HAFM must discover and manage it.
HAFM performs zoning discovery once at startup, and thereafter once every two hours during
routine discovery. For best results, HP recommends that you perform zoning five discovery cycles
after starting the HAFM appliance.
The following zoning features are described:
• Zoning limits, page 157
• Zoning naming
• Zoning configuration, page 158
• Zoning administration, page 166

Zoning limits

You can configure large zone sets with HAFM.
and directors.
NOTE: Hard zoning is enforced when the firmware initializes. Devices not conforming to zoning
rules are restricted to their assigned zones.
Table 23

Zoning parameter limits

Zoning parameter
Number of zone members in a zone
Number of zones in a zone set
Number of unique zone members in a
zone set
Total number of zone members in a
zone set (where a zone member can be
in multiple zones)
Characters per zoning name
Number of unique zone members in
HAFM zoning library
conventions, page 158
Table 23 lists the zoning limits for the edge switches
Maximum value
2048
1024
2048
4096
64
2048
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