Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide v6.2.0 (53-1001194-01, April 2009)

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Chapter

Administering Zoning

In this chapter

•Zoning overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

•Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

•Zoning management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

•Zone configuration and zoning database management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

•Best practices for zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Zoning overview

This chapter describes zoning and provides the procedures for managing zoning. The Zoning

Administration 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.

The EGM license is required only for 8 Gbps platforms, such as the Brocade DCX and DCX-4S

enterprise-class platforms, the Encryption Switch, the 300, 5300, and 5100 switches. For non-8

Gbps platforms, all functionalities are available without EGM license.

The following table describes the zoning features that are no longer supported in Web Tools, but

are supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition.

TABLE 13 Zoning features supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition

Description DCFM Professional Edition DCFM Enterprise Edition

Member selection yes yes

Zone editing yes yes

Live Fabric library scope yes yes

QoS support yes yes

Zone alias support yes yes

Ability to delete zone database no yes

Zone analysis no yes

Remove offline devices no yes

TI zoning yes yes

Device to zone, zoneset participation

analysis

yes yes