Zone Implementation - HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Cisco mds 9000 family fabric manager configuration guide, release 3.x (ol-8222-10, april 2008)
Hide thumbs Also See for Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch:
Table of Contents

Advertisement

Chapter 30
Configuring and Managing Zones
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
Figure 30-1
Of course, there are other ways to partition this fabric into zones.
possibility. Assume that there is a need to isolate storage system S2 for the purpose of testing new
software. To achieve this, zone 3 is configured, which contains only host H2 and storage S2. You can
restrict access to just H2 and S2 in zone 3, and to H1 and S1 in zone 1.
Figure 30-2

Zone Implementation

All switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family automatically support the following basic zone features (no
additional configuration is required):
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Fabric with Two Zones
H1
H2
H3
Fabric with Three Zones
H1
H2
H3
Zones are contained in a VSAN.
Hard zoning cannot be disabled.
Name server queries are soft-zoned.
Only active zone sets are distributed.
Unzoned devices cannot access each other.
A zone or zone set with the same name can exist in each VSAN.
Zone 1
Fabric
Zone 2
Zone 1
Fabric
Zone 3
Zone 2
Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
S1
S2
S3
Figure 30-2
illustrates another
S1
S2
S3
About Zoning
30-3

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

Table of Contents