HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

Provisioning Manager328
About Provisioning Brocade Switches
After Upgrading
After you upgrade the management server, perform Discovery Data Collection/Get Details for any
subset of elements that includes the Brocade switch before performing any provisioning operations
that involve that Brocade switch. See ”Step 4 - Discovery Data Collection or Get Details” on
page 90 for details.
Managing Zones
This section describes the following:
• ”SAN Zoning Overview” on page 328
• ”Accessing Information About Zone Aliases” on page 333
• ”Creating Zone Aliases” on page 334
• ”Modifying a Zone Alias” on page 335
• ”Deleting Zone Aliases” on page 336
• ”Accessing Information About Zoning” on page 336
• ”Creating a Zone in a Fabric” on page 337
• ”Adding and Removing Zone Members” on page 339
• ”Deleting Zones” on page 339
• ”Accessing Information About Zone Sets” on page 339
• ”Creating a Zone Set” on page 340
• ”Modifying a Zone Set” on page 342
• ”Deleting Zone Sets” on page 342
• ”Copying a Zone Set” on page 343
• ”Activating a Zone Set” on page 344
• ”Zones and Zone Sets Are Sometimes Listed Twice” on page 345
• ”Changing the Amount of Information Collected from the Inactive Zone Database (Cisco
Switches)” on page 346
SAN Zoning Overview
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, Provisioning Manager may not be available. See the
“List of Features” to determine if you have access to Provisioning Manager. The “List of Features” is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
Use SAN zoning to control what can be seen in the storage area network (SAN). SAN zoning lets
you group elements into zones, which can then be grouped into active and inactive zone sets.
Only elements in an active zone set can be seen. A switch fabric can have multiple zone sets, but
only one zone set can be active.
Zones are an excellent way to split hardware resources because they work by exclusion. For
example, you can set up your switch ports so that elements connected to some of the ports appear