Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Plus User Manual - Supporting DCFM 10.3.x (53-1001356-01, October 2009)

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Contents
Disabling Virtual Fabrics on a discovered device . . . . . . . . . 495
Creating a logical switch or base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Finding the physical chassis for a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . 497
Finding the logical switch from a physical chassis . . . . . . . . 497
Assigning ports to a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Removing ports from a logical switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Deleting a logical switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Configuring fabric-wide parameters for a logical fabric. . . . . 500
Applying logical fabric settings to all associated
logical switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Moving a logical switch to a different fabric. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Changing a logical switch to a base switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Chapter 17 Zoning
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .505
Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .505
Special zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Online zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Offline zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Accessing zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Zoning naming conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Invalid zoning name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .507
Administrator zoning privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Zoning configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .509
Configuring zoning for the SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Creating a new zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Viewing zone properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Adding members to a zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Creating a new member in a zone by WWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Creating a new member in a zone by domain, port index. . . 513
Creating a new member in a zone by alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Enabling or disabling the default zone for fabrics . . . . . . . . . 515
Enabling or disabling safe zoning mode for fabrics. . . . . . . . 516
Creating a new zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Editing a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Removing an object from a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Exporting zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Renaming a zone alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Creating a zone configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Viewing zone configuration properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Adding zones to zone configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Activating a zone configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Deactivating a zone configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Creating an offline zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
Refreshing a zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Merging two zone databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Saving a zone database to a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Exporting an offline zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Importing an offline zone database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Rolling back changes to the zone database on the fabric . . 529