Zoning Configuration; Displaying Zoning Database Information; Configured Zoneset Information - HP StorageWorks 8/20q Command Line Interface Manual

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Zoning Configuration

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 zoneset. Several zonesets can be defined for a fabric, but
only one zoneset can be active at one time. The active zoneset 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 zonesets, zones, and aliases that
you create and save on a switch. The zonesets in the non-volatile zoning database are known as
configured zonesets.
• 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 zoneset being edited or an active zoneset
received from another switch. In the latter case, this is also known as the merged zoneset.
• Active—This zoning database is the active zoneset.
You can display the following information about the zoning database:
• Configured zoneset
• Active zoneset
• Merged zoneset
• Edited zoneset
• Zoneset membership
• Orphan zone
• Alias and alias membership
• Zoning modification
• Zoning database

Configured zoneset information

The zoneset list and the zoning list commands display information about all zonesets in the
non-volatile zoning database. To display a list of the zonesets, enter the zoneset list command, as
shown in the following example:
8/20q FC Switch #> zoneset list
Current List of ZoneSets
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alpha
beta
information, page 69
information, page 71
information, page 72
information, page 72
information, page 72
information, page 73
information, page 74
history, page 74
limits, page 75
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