Zoning Configuration; Displaying Zoning Database Information; Zoning Database Limits - HP AK241A - StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection Cli Manual

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Zoning configuration

This section describes the following tasks:
• Displaying zoning database
• Configuring the zoning
• Modifying the zoning
• Saving the active and merged zone
• Resetting the zoning
• Managing zone
• Managing
• Managing
Access to devices within the fabric is controlled by zoning. Some zoning strategies are:
• Separating devices by operating system
• Separating devices that have no need to communicate with other devices in the fabric or have
classified data
• Separating devices into department, administrative, or other functional group
• Reserving a path and its bandwidth from one port to another
A zone is a named group of ports or devices. Members of the same zone can communicate with each
other and transmit outside the zone, but cannot receive inbound traffic from outside the zone.
Zoning divides the fabric for purposes of controlling discovery and inbound traffic. Zoning is
hardware-enforced only when a port/device is a member of no more than eight zones whose combined
membership does not exceed 64. If this condition is not satisfied, that port behaves as a soft zone member.
You can assign ports/devices to a zone individually or as a group by creating an alias.
A zone can be a component of more than one zone set. Several zone sets can be defined for a fabric, but
only one zone set can be active at one time. The active zone set determines the current fabric zoning.

Displaying zoning database information

A switch maintains three zoning databases:
• Non-volatile—This zoning database is permanent and contains all zone sets, zones, and aliases that
you create and save on a switch. The zone sets in the non-volatile zoning database are known as
configured zone sets.
• Volatile—This zoning database is temporary. This means it is not retained across switch resets. The
volatile zoning database can be the working copy of a zone set being edited or an active zone set
received from another switch. In the latter case, this is also known as the merged zone set.
• Active—This zoning database is the active zone set.
You can display the following information about the zoning database:
• Configured zone set
• Active zone set
• Merged zone set
• Edited zone set
• Zone set membership
• Orphan zone
• Alias and alias membership
• Zoning modification
• Zoning database
information, page 73
database, page 79
database, page 81
database, page 82
sets, page 82
zones, page 83
aliases, page 85
information, page 74
information, page 75
information, page 76
information, page 76
information, page 76
information, page 77
information, page 78
history, page 78
limits, page 79
sets, page 81
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