Zone Database Size; Zoning Configuration; Configuring Zoning For The San - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c User Manual

Note the following items about setting zoning privileges:
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Zone database size

The supported maximum zone database size is 1 MB.
Virtual Fabric considerations: If Virtual Fabrics is enabled, the sum of the zone database sizes on
all of the logical fabrics must not exceed the maximum size allowed for the chassis (1 MB).
The Professional Edition does not support large zone databases. In the Professional Edition, the
maximum size of the zone database without zone aliases is 32 KB. If the zone database contains
aliases, the maximum size is less than 32 KB.

Zoning configuration

At a minimum, zoning configuration entails creating zones and zone members. However, you can
also create zone aliases, zone configurations, and zone databases. You can define multiple zone
configurations, deactivating and activating individual configurations as your needs change. Zoning
configuration can also involve enabling or disabling safe zoning mode and the default zone.

Configuring zoning for the SAN

The following procedure provides an overview of the steps you must perform to configure zoning for
the SAN.
Note that for any zoning-related procedure, changes to a zone database are not saved until you
click OK or Apply on the Zoning dialog box. If you click Cancel or the close button (X), no changes
are saved.
1. Select Configure > Zoning > Fabric.
2. Click the Zone DB tab if that tab is not automatically displayed.
3. Select an FC fabric from the Zoning Scope list.
4. If you want to show all the discovered fabrics in the Potential Members list, right-click in the
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If no privilege level is set for any of the components, zoning is disabled at the Management
application main menu and the Zoning dialog box cannot be opened.
If a privilege level is set for Activation without levels being set for the Offline, Online, or LSAN
Zoning, the Zoning dialog box cannot be opened. The Activation privilege cannot be added
without setting at least one privilege above to either Read/Write or Read-Only. An information
message displays when attempting to add the Zoning Activation only privilege.
If a privilege level is set for the Offline, Online, or LSAN Zoning, or for all three, without a level
being set for Activation, the Zoning dialog box can be opened and the functions outlined in the
table for read/write and read-only settings for the libraries will be accessible. (Activating and
deactivating active zone configurations will not be possible.)
The Zoning dialog box displays.
This identifies the target entity for all subsequent zoning actions and displays the zoning
database for the selected entity.
Potential Members list and select Display All.
Zone database size
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