Zoning Concepts; Zones - HP Surestore 64 - Director Switch User Manual

Zoning Concepts

Zoning is configured by authorizing or restricting access to name server information
associated with device ports that attach to product ports. A zone member is specified by
the number of the product port to which a device is attached, or by the 8-byte world-wide
name assigned to the host bus adapter or Fibre Channel interface installed in a device. A
device port can belong to multiple zones.
Zoning concepts include:
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Zones

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Default Zone
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Zone Sets
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Zone Library
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Active Zone Set
Zones
A zone is comprised of a set of members (maximum 4096) that can access each other. A
member can be a product port or the WWN of the device. Ports and devices spread
throughout multiple managed products in a multiswitch fabric may be grouped into the
same zone. Members of a zone can see each other; members in different zones cannot. The
number of members that you can configure for a zone varies according to the number of
zones in the zone set, the length of the zone names, and other factors, but is essentially
bounded by the available nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM) in the managed
product.
The type of zone members identified for a zone may be mixed and matched. For example,
two members may be specified by a port number and the third member by the WWN of the
device.
Please note the following naming conventions when naming zones:
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The first character of a zone name must be a letter (A-Z, a-z).
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