Zoning Concepts; Naming Conventions For Zones And Zone Sets; Zones - HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 User Manual

Configuring Zones
Before establishing persistent binding or access control features at the storage
device, consult with your managed-product vendor's professional services
organization.

Zoning Concepts

Zoning is configured by authorizing or restricting access to name server
information associated with device ports that attach to product ports. A zone
member is specified by the number of the product port to which a device is
attached, or by the 8-byte WWN assigned to the HBA or Fibre Channel interface
installed in a device. A device port can belong to multiple zones.
Zoning concepts include:

Naming Conventions for Zones and Zone Sets

The following naming conventions apply to zones and zone sets:

Zones

A zone contains a set of members that can access each other. Refer to
details on the number of members that you can configure in a zone and the
number of zones that you can configure with the EWS Configure Zone functions.
A zone member can be a switch or director port or the WWN of the device. Ports
and devices spread throughout multiple managed products in a multiswitch fabric
may be grouped into the same zone. Members of a zone can see each other;
members in different zones cannot. The number of members that you can
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Is typically proprietary and protects only a specific vendor's storage devices.
Storage-level access control may not be available for many legacy devices.
Zones
Default Zone
Zone Sets
Active Zone Set
All names must be unique and may not differ by case only. For example,
myzone and MyZone are both valid individually, but they are not unique.
The first character of a zone set name must be a letter (A—Z, a—z).
A zone set name cannot contain spaces.
Valid characters are a—z, A—Z, 0—9, ^, -, _, and $.
A zone set name can have a maximum of 64 characters.
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