Creating Zone Sets And Adding Member Zones; Zone Enforcement - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Creating Zone Sets and Adding Member Zones

Device alias example:
switch(config-fcalias)# member device-alias devName
Creating Zone Sets and Adding Member Zones
To create a zone set to include several zones, perform this task:
Procedure
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
You do not have to copy the running configuration to the startup configuration to store the active zone
Tip
set. However, you need to copy the running configuration to the startup configuration to explicitly store
full zone sets.

Zone Enforcement

Zoning can be enforced in two ways: soft and hard. Each end device (N port) discovers other devices in the
fabric by querying the name server. When a device logs in to the name server, the name server returns the list
of other devices that can be accessed by the querying device. If an N port does not know about the FC IDs of
other devices outside its zone, it cannot access those devices.
In soft zoning, zoning restrictions are applied only during interaction between the name server and the end
device. If an end device somehow knows the FC ID of a device outside its zone, it can access that device.
Hard zoning is enforced by the hardware on each frame sent by an N port. As frames enter the switch,
source-destination IDs are compared with permitted combinations to allow the frame at wire speed. Hard
zoning is applied to all forms of zoning.
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Command or Action
switch# configuration terminal
switch(config)# zone set name
zoneset-name vsan vsan-id
switch(config-zoneset)# member
name
switch(config-zoneset)# zone name
zone-name
switch(config-zoneset-zone)#
member fcid fcid
Configuring and Managing Zones
Purpose
Enters configuration mode.
Configures a zone set with the configured zoneset-name.
Tip To activate a zone set, you must first create the
zone and a zone set.
Adds a zone as a member of the previously specified zone
set.
If the specified zone name was not previously
Tip
configured, this command will return a "zone not
present" error message:
Adds a zone to the specified zone set.
Tip Execute this step only if you need to create a zone
from a zone set prompt.
Adds a new member to the new zone.
Tip Execute this step only if you need to add a member
to a zone from a zone set prompt.
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