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Best practices for zoning

Zone configuration analysis

You must use Brocade Network Advisor to analyze the following zone configurations:

• Add unzoned devices

• Remove offline or inaccessible devices

• Replace offline devices

• Define device alias

Best practices for zoning

The following are recommendations for using zoning:

• Always zone using the highest Fabric OS-level switch.

Switches with earlier Fabric OS versions do not have the capability to view all the functionality

that a newer Fabric OS provides as functionality is backwards-compatible but not

forward-compatible.

• Zone using the core switch versus an edge switch.

• Zone using a director over a switch.

A director has more resources to handle zoning changes and implementations.

• Zone on the switch you connect to when bringing up Web Tools (the proxy switch).