HP H-series Enterprise Fabric Management Suite Software - Manual (Page 50)

50 Managing Fabric Zoning
resides in non-volatile or permanent memory and is therefore retained after a reset. Zones that are currently
not in a zone set are considered to be part of the orphan zone set. The orphan zone set is not an actual
zone set, but rather a way of displaying the zones that are not currently in a zone set.
To apply zoning to a fabric, choose a zone set and activate it. When you activate a zone set, the switch
distributes that zone set and its zones, excluding aliases, to every switch in the fabric. This zone set is
known as the active zone set. See ” Viewing active and configured zone set information ” (page 51) for
information about displaying the active zone set.
Zoning database
Each switch has its own zoning database. The zoning database is made up of all aliases, zones, and zone
sets that have been created on the switch or received from other switches. The switch maintains two copies
of the inactive zoning database: one copy is maintained in temporary memory for editing purposes; the
second copy is maintained in permanent memory. Zoning database edits are made on an individual
switch basis and are not propagated to other switches in the fabric when saved.
The Merge Auto Save parameter determines whether changes to the active zone set that a switch receives
from another switch in the fabric are saved to permanent memory on that switch. See ” Configuring the
zoning database ” (page 54) for information about zoning configuration.
Using the Zoning Wizard
The Zoning Wizard is a series of dialog boxes that leads you through the process of zoning a fabric. To
open the Zoning Wizard, open the Wizards menu in the faceplate display, and select Zoning Wizard.
The Zoning Wizard helps you zone the two most typical reasons for zoning:
• Zoning Windows servers storage
• Assign storage to servers.
There must be at least one target and at least one initiator in the name server. Windows servers do not
share devices well, but sometimes they must share devices, such as a tape drive. The wizard helps you
define which devices are sharable and which ones are not. Once a device is in a Windows group, it can
no longer be in any other group.
Managing the zoning database
The following sections describe the zoning database management tasks.
NOTE: Changes that you make to the zoning database are limited to the managed switch and do not
propagate to the rest of the fabric. To distribute changes to configured zone sets fabric wide, you must edit
the zoning databases on the individual switches.
Viewing zoning limits and properties
Zoning limits vary depending on the firmware installed on the switch:
• MaxZoneSets—Maximum number of zone sets that can be configured on the switch.
• MaxZones—Maximum number of zones that can be configured on the switch, including orphan zones.
• MaxAliases—Maximum number of aliases that can be configured on the switch.
• MaxTotalMembers—Maximum number of zone and alias members that can be stored in the switch
zoning database. Each instance of a zone member or alias member counts toward this maximum.
• MaxZonesInZoneSets—Maximum number of zone linkages to zone sets that can be configured on the
switch. A linkage is configured every time a zone is added to a zone set.
• MaxMembersPerZone—Maximum number of zone members that can be added to any zone on the
switch. When added to a zone, an alias is considered to be a zone member.
• MaxMembersPerAlias—Maximum number of zone members that can be added to any alias on the
switch.