HP StorageWorks 2.64 Director Switch - Manual (Page 139)

Fabric Zoning
139 High Availability Fabric Manager User Guide
Naming Conventions for Zones and Zone Sets
The following naming conventions apply to zones and zone sets:
■ All names must be unique and may not differ by case only. For example,
myzone and MyZone are both valid individually, but the are not considered to
be unique.
■ The first character of a zone set name must be a letter (A-Z, a-z).
■ A zone set name cannot contain spaces.
■ Valid characters are a-a, A-A, 0-9, ^, -, _, and $.
■ A zone set name can have a maximum of 64 characters.
Zones
A zone comprises a set of members that can access each other. Refer to Table 5 on
page 146 for details on the number of members that you can configure in a zone
and the number of zones that you can configure in the HAFM zoning library.
A zone member can be a product port or the WWN of the device. Ports and
devices spread throughout multiple managed products in a multiswitch fabric may
be grouped into the same zone. Members of a zone can communicate with one
another; members in different zones cannot. The number of members that you can
configure for a zone varies according to the number of zones in the zone set, the
length of the zone names, and other factors, but is essentially bounded by the
available nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM) in the managed product.
Note: Port numbers cannot be used for zone members if the interoperability mode for
the switch or director is set to Open Fabric 1.0 mode. In this case, you must use node
WWNs as zone members.
The type of zone members identified for a zone may be mixed and matched. For
example, two members may be specified by a port number and the third member
by the WWN of the device.