Zoning Management - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 300 Administrator's Manual

After you have defined the device aliases, the aliases are displayed under Device Alias when you
select View under Devices (as in
Access Map for Devices when you select View under Zoning
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Zoning management

Zoning enables you to partition your fabric into logical groups of devices that can access each
other. For example, you can partition your fabric into two zones, winzone and unixzone, so that your
Windows servers and storage do not interact with your UNIX servers and storage.
Zones can be configured dynamically. They can vary in size, depending on the number of
fabric-connected devices, and devices can belong to more than one zone. Because zone members
can access only other members of the same zone, a device not included in a zone is not available
to members of that zone.
Zone members may be specified by fabric location (domain, port index) only, or by device name
(node name or port WWN). Zones whose members are specified by fabric location are port-based,
and zones whose members are directly specified by device WWN are device-based. In port-based
zoning, all devices that are connected to ports that are in the same zone can communicate with
each other, and a device can join a zone simply by being connected to a member port. In
device-based zoning, devices are explicitly specified as members of the same zone. These devices
can communicate with each other regardless of where they are located in the fabric.
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Device alias in Zone Access Map
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