Admin Domains And Lsan Zones - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

Zoning operations ignore any resources not in the Admin Domain, even if they are specified in the zone.
The behavior functions similarly to specifying offline devices in a zone. All zones from each Admin Domain
zoneset are enforced. The enforcement policy encompasses zones in the effective zoneset of the root zone
database and the effective zonesets of each AD.
NOTE: AD zone databases do not have an enforced size limit. The zone database size is calculated by
the upper limit of the AD membership definition and the sum of all the zone databases for each AD.
Admin Domains support defzone mode of noaccess alone. Before configuring any Admin Domain, you
must set the defzone to noaccess mode. Admin Domains without effective zone configurations are
presented with no access. See
Admin Domains introduce two types of zone database nomenclature and behavior:
• Root zone database—If you do not use Admin Domains, you will have only one zone database.
This legacy zone database is known as the
have the root zone database, which is owned by AD0, and other zone databases, one for each
user-defined Admin Domain.
• During the zone update process, only the root zone database is sent to AD-unaware switches.
• AD-level zone information is merged with the root zone configuration and enforced.
If the administrative domain feature is not active (AD1–AD254 are not configured and no explicit members
are added to AD0), AD0 supports both defzone allaccess and noaccess modes.
Zone databases—The Admin Domains each have separate zone databases and zone transaction
•
buffers. You can concurrently edit the separate zone databases. The AD zone database also has the
following characteristics:
• Each Admin Domain (AD1 through AD254) has its own zone definitions. These zone definitions
include defined and effective zonesets and all related zone objects including zones, zone aliases,
and zone members. For example, you can define a zone name of test_z1 in more than one Admin
Domain.
• Each zone database has its own namespace.
• There is no zone database linked to the physical fabric (AD255) and no support for zone database
updates. In the physical fabric context (AD255), you can only view the complete hierarchical zone
database, which is made up of the zone databases in AD0 through A254.
• With AD support, zoning updates are supported selectively at each AD level. For example, a zone
change in AD1 results in an update request only for the AD1 zone database.

Admin Domains and LSAN zones

LSANs under each Admin Domain are collated into a single name space and sent out to FCR phantom
domains using the following format:
original_LSAN_name
<
For example, a zone with name
lsan_for_linux_farm_AD005
LSAN zone names in AD0 are never converted for backward compatibility reasons.
The auto-converted LSAN zone names might collide with LSAN zone names in AD0 (for example, in the
above example, if AD0 contains
OS does not detect or report such name clash.
LSAN zone names greater than 57 characters are not converted or sent to the FCR phantom domain.
"Activating default
root zone database
AD_num
>_AD< >
lsan_for_linux_farm
.
lsan_for_linux_farm_AD005
zones" on page 355 for more information.
. If you create Admin Domains, you will
in AD5 is internally converted to
, this would cause a name collision). Fabric
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