HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96056, November 2006)

Provisioning Manager338
About Provisioning Brocade Switches
After Upgrading
After you upgrade the management server, perform Discovery Data Collection/Get Details for any
subset of elements that includes the Brocade switch before performing any provisioning operations
that involve that Brocade switch. See ”Step 4 - Discovery Data Collection or Get Details” on
page 98 for details.
Managing Zones
This section describes the following:
• ”SAN Zoning Overview” on page 338
• ”Accessing Information About Zone Aliases” on page 343
• ”Creating Zone Aliases” on page 344
• ”Modifying a Zone Alias” on page 345
• ”Deleting Zone Aliases” on page 346
• ”Accessing Information About Zoning” on page 346
• ”Creating a Zone in a Fabric” on page 347
• ”Adding and Removing Zone Members” on page 349
• ”Deleting Zones” on page 349
• ”Accessing Information About Zone Sets” on page 349
• ”Creating a Zone Set” on page 350
• ”Modifying a Zone Set” on page 352
• ”Deleting Zone Sets” on page 352
• ”Copying a Zone Set” on page 353
• ”Activating a Zone Set” on page 354
• ”Zones and Zone Sets Are Sometimes Listed Twice” on page 355
• ”Changing the Amount of Information Collected from the Inactive Zone Database (Cisco
Switches)” on page 356
SAN Zoning Overview
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, Provisioning Manager may not be available. See the
“List of Features” to determine if you have access to Provisioning Manager. The “List of Features” is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
Use SAN zoning to control what can be seen in the storage area network (SAN). SAN zoning lets
you group elements into zones, which can then be grouped into active and inactive zone sets. Only
elements in an active zone set can be seen. A switch fabric can have multiple zone sets, but only
one zone set can be active.
Zones are an excellent way to split hardware resources because they work by exclusion. For
example, you can set up your switch ports so that elements connected to some of the ports appear