Administrator Guide

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Chapter
8
Administering Zoning
In this chapter
•Zoning overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
•Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
•Zoning management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
•Zone configuration and zoning database management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
•Best practices for zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Zoning overview
This chapter describes zoning and provides the procedures for managing zoning. The Zone Admin
window provides two zoning options on the left pane:
• Basic zones
• Traffic isolation zones
You can perform basic zoning and traffic isolation zones using Web Tools and Web Tools with the
EGM license.
Basic zones
Basic zoning enables you to partition a storage area network (SAN) into logical groups of devices
that can access each other. For example, you can partition a SAN into two zones, winzone and
unixzone, so that the Windows servers and storage do not interact with UNIX servers and storage.
Zones can be configured dynamically. They can vary in size, depending on the number of
fabric-connected devices, and devices can belong to more than one zone. Because zone members
can access only other members of the same zone, a device not included in a zone is not available
to members of that zone.
Traffic Isolation zones
A traffic isolation zone (TI zone) is a special zone that creates a dedicated path for a specific traffic
flow. TI zones are primarily for shaping and controlling traffic rather than partitioning access to
storage.