Reference Guide

Zone merging...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................332
Fabric segmentation and zoning.........................................................................................................................................................................................................333
Zone merging scenarios.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 333
Concurrent zone transactions......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 339
Viewing zone database transactions.................................................................................................................................................................................................340
Peer Zoning...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................340
Peer Zoning compared to other zoning types.............................................................................................................................................................................. 341
Advantages of Peer Zoning................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 344
Peer Zone connectivity rules................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 344
Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations for Peer Zoning..............................................................................................................................345
LSAN and QoS Peer Zoning considerations...............................................................................................................................................................................345
Peer Zone configuration...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................345
Target Driven Zoning............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 347
Limitations and considerations for Target Driven Zoning.....................................................................................................................................................348
Target Driven Zoning configuration...................................................................................................................................................................................................348
Supported commands for Peer Zones and Target Driven Peer Zones................................................................................................................................... 351
Boot LUN zoning................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 352
Setting up boot LUN zoning..................................................................................................................................................................................................................354
Traffic Isolation Zoning...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................357
Traffic Isolation Zoning overview................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 357
TI zone failover .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................358
FSPF routing rules and traffic isolation..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 359
Enhanced TI zones..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................361
Invalid configurations with enhanced TI zones........................................................................................................................................................................... 362
General rules for TI zones................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 364
Additional configuration rules for enhanced TI zones.............................................................................................................................................................365
Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation Zoning.....................................................................................................................................................................366
Creating a TI zone..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................366
Modifying TI zones................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 367
Changing the state of a TI zone.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................368
Deleting a TI zone..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................368
Displaying TI zones...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................368
Enforcing Local TI Filtering.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 369
Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers..........................................................................................................................................................................................370
TI zones within an edge fabric.................................................................................................................................................................................................................371
TI zones within a backbone fabric.......................................................................................................................................................................................................372
Limitations of TI zones over FC routers..........................................................................................................................................................................................373
Fabric-Level Traffic Isolation in a backbone fabric.............................................................................................................................................................................. 374
Fabric-Level TI zones.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................375
Failover behavior for Fabric-Level TI zones..................................................................................................................................................................................376
Creating a separate TI zone for each path......................................................................................................................................................................................376
Creating a single TI zone for all paths................................................................................................................................................................................................377
Setting up TI zones over FCR (sample procedure)...................................................................................................................................................................378
Virtual Fabrics considerations for Traffic Isolation Zoning............................................................................................................................................................... 381
Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers with Virtual Fabrics........................................................................................................................................................383
Troubleshooting TI zone routing problems.............................................................................................................................................................................................385
Traffic Isolation Zone violation handling for trunk ports.........................................................................................................................................................386
Optimizing Fabric Behavior........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 387
Adaptive Networking overview....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 387
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