HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.X Administrator Guide (AA-RVHWB-TE, September 2005)

190 Administering advanced zoning
Table 38 Resulting database size: 128K to 256K
Table 39 Resulting database size: 256K to 1M
Creating and modifying zoning configurations
You can store a number of zones in a zoning configuration database. The maximum number of items that
can be stored in the zoning configuration database depends on the following criteria:
• Number of switches in the fabric.
• Whether or not interoperability mode is enabled.
• Number of bytes per item. The number of bytes required for an item depends on the specifics of the
fabric, but cannot exceed 64 bytes per item.
When enabling a new zone configuration, you must ensure that the size of the configuration does not
exceed the minimum size supported by all switches in the fabric. This is particularly important if and when
you downgrade to a Fabric Operating System (FOS) that supports a smaller zone database than the
current FOS. In this scenario, the zone database in the current FOS would have to be changed to the
smaller zone database before the downgrade.
You can use the cfgSize command to check both the maximum available size and the currently saved
size on all switches. See the HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.x command reference guide for details on the
cfgSize command. If you believe you are approaching the maximum, you can save a partially
completed zoning configuration and use the cfgSize command to determine the remaining space.
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