Deployment Guide

Zone object maintenance..............................................................................326
Copying a zone object.......................................................................326
Deleting a zone object.......................................................................327
Renaming a zone object................................................................... 328
Zone configuration management.................................................................. 328
Security and zoning.......................................................................................329
Zone merging................................................................................................ 329
Fabric segmentation and zoning....................................................... 331
Zone merging scenarios....................................................................331
Concurrent zone transactions....................................................................... 338
Viewing zone database transactions.................................................339
Traffic Isolation Zoning..........................................................................................................341
Traffic Isolation Zoning overview...................................................................341
TI zone failover .............................................................................................342
Additional considerations when disabling failover.............................343
FSPF routing rules and traffic isolation............................................. 344
Enhanced TI zones....................................................................................... 346
Illegal configurations with enhanced TI zones.................................. 346
Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers........................................................348
TI zones within an edge fabric.......................................................... 349
TI zones within a backbone fabric.....................................................350
Limitations of TI zones over FC routers............................................ 351
Fabric-Level Traffic Isolation in a backbone fabric........................................352
Fabric-Level TI zones........................................................................353
Failover behavior for Fabric-Level TI zones......................................354
Creating a separate TI zone for each path........................................354
Creating a single TI zone for all paths...............................................355
General rules for TI zones.............................................................................356
Traffic Isolation Zone violation handling for trunk ports.....................357
Supported configurations for Traffic Isolation Zoning....................................358
Additional configuration rules for enhanced TI zones....................... 358
Trunking with TI zones...................................................................... 358
Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning.................................. 359
Admin Domain considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning............................360
Virtual Fabrics considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning............................ 360
Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics........................ 362
Creating a TI zone.........................................................................................363
Creating a TI zone in a base fabric................................................... 365
Modifying TI zones........................................................................................ 366
Changing the state of a TI zone.................................................................... 368
Deleting a TI zone......................................................................................... 368
Displaying TI zones.......................................................................................369
Troubleshooting TI zone routing problems....................................................370
Setting up TI zones over FCR (sample procedure).......................................370
Optimizing Fabric Behavior................................................................................................... 375
Adaptive Networking overview...................................................................... 375
Ingress Rate Limiting.................................................................................... 376
Virtual Fabrics considerations........................................................... 376
Limiting traffic from a particular device..............................................376
Disabling Ingress Rate Limiting.........................................................377
QoS............................................................................................................... 377
License requirements for QoS.......................................................... 378
CS_CTL-based frame prioritization...............................................................378
Supported configurations for CS_CTL-based frame prioritization.....379
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