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Chapter
9
Administering Zoning
In this chapter
• Zoning overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
• Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
• Zoning management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
• Zone configuration and zoning database management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
• Best practices for zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
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.
Table 13 describes the zoning features that are no longer supported in Web Tools, but are
supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition.
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Basic zones
Basic zoning enables you to partition a storage area network (SAN) into logical groups of devices
that can access each other. For example, you can partition a SAN into two zones, winzone and
unixzone, so that the Windows servers and storage do not interact with UNIX servers and storage.
TABLE 13 Zoning features supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition
Description DCFM Professional Edition DCFM Enterprise Edition
Live Fabric library scope yes yes
QoS support yes yes
Remove offline devices no yes
Device to zone, zoneset participation
analysis yes yes
Rolling back an already activated zone
DB no yes
Importing/Exporting of a zone DB
to/from file system in XML format no yes