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

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VSAN (VSAN 1) that initially includes all ports, and an isolated VSAN (VSAN 4094)
where ports end up if their owning VSAN is deleted.
W
Web-Based Enterprise
Management
(WBEM) Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is an initiative based on a set of
management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management
of enterprise computing environments. WBEM provides the ability for the industry to
deliver a well-integrated set of standard-based management tools leveraging the
emerging technologies such as CIM and XML.
Windows
Management
Instrumentation
(WMI) Microsoft created WMI as its implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management
(WBEM). For more information about WMI, refer to the Microsoft Web site at
http://www.microsoft.com.
The Windows CIM Extension enhances Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
so that it can gather information from host bus adapters and make the information
available to the management server.
Worldwide Name
(WWN) zoning A type of zoning in which the port is assigned to a Worldwide Name of a host or a
storage system. It is not dependent on the switch.
WWN (Worldwide
Name) Fibre-channel Worldwide Name. Usually formatted as 16-hexadecimal digits. This
name is globally unique, and it identifies the connection or set of connections to the
network.
Z
zone A collection of zone aliases and ports.
zone alias To avoid remembering a port's Worldwide Name (WWN), assign the port to a zone
alias.
zone member A zone member is a port attached to a switch, a Worldwide Name (WWN) or a zone
alias.
As a best practice, a zone should contain either zone aliases or ports, but not both.
zone set A zone set is a collection of zones. You can have only one zone set active in a fabric;
however, you can have a zone in more than one zone set. Zones sets are usually
created for a particular task.