HP Surestore 6164 - Switch Reference Manual page 231

Zone
Zone configuration
Zoning
Set of hosts and devices attached to same fabric and having access
permission, including RSCNs and user data, to each other. Entities inside a
zone are not visible to entities outside the same zone, even if the outside
entities are in another zone. Equivalent to network term "virtual LAN".
A specified set of zones. Enabling a zone configuration enables all zones in
that configuration. See also Defined configuration, Enabled configuration.
Software product that allows partitioning of fabric into logical groupings of
devices. See also Zone.
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