Deployment Guide

Administering Advanced Zoning
● Zone types.................................................................................................................... 297
● Zoning overview............................................................................................................ 298
● Broadcast zones........................................................................................................... 303
● Zone aliases..................................................................................................................306
● Zone creation and maintenance....................................................................................309
● Default zoning mode..................................................................................................... 319
● Zone database size.......................................................................................................320
● Zone configurations.......................................................................................................321
● Zone object maintenance..............................................................................................326
● Zone configuration management.................................................................................. 328
● Security and zoning.......................................................................................................329
● Zone merging................................................................................................................ 329
● Concurrent zone transactions....................................................................................... 338
Zone types
Zones enable you to partition your fabric into logical groups of devices that can access each other.
These are "regular" or "standard" zones. Unless otherwise specified, all references to zones in this
chapter refer to these regular zones. Beyond this, Fabric OS has the following types of special zones:
• Broadcast zones
Controls which devices receive broadcast frames. A broadcast zone restricts broadcast packets to
only those devices that are members of the broadcast zone. Refer to Broadcast zones on page 303
for more information.
• Frame redirection zones
Re-route frames between an initiator and a target through a Virtual Initiator and Virtual Target for
special processing or functionality, such as for storage virtualization or encryption. Refer to Frame
Redirection on page 115 for more information.
• LSAN zones
Provide device connectivity between fabrics without merging the fabrics. Refer to LSAN zone
configuration on page 559 for more information.
• QoS zones
Assign high or low priority to designated traffic flows. QoS zones are regular zones with additional
QoS attributes specified by adding a QoS prefix to the zone name. Refer to QoS on page 377 for
more information.
• Traffic Isolation zones (TI zones)
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