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Chapter 5 Configuring Fibre Channel Interfaces

Configuring Zoning

The SN 5428-2 zoning feature provides the ability to actively participate in FC switched fabric zones

and to manage zones. Managing a zone includes creating a zone set, creating zones as zone set members,

then adding devices (using WWPN) as zone members.

After the zone members are added to the zone set, you must activate the zone set. The SN 5428-2 allows

you to configure multiple zone sets to satisfy the different security and access needs of your storage area

network; however, only one zone set can be active at one time.

Managing zoning include the following tasks:

• Creating and deleting zone sets, zones, and aliases

• Adding a zone to a zone set and removing a zone from a zone set

• Adding a member to a zone or an alias using WWPN

• Adding an alias to a zone

• Activating and deactivating zone sets

• Clearing zones on the local SN 5428-2

• Clearing the fabric wide zoning database

To make changes to a new or an existing configuration, add, delete, or remove individual elements to

create the desired configuration.

Note All zoning changes are automatically saved to the SN 5428-2 bootable configuration and, if the

SN 5428-2 is connected to the FC switched fabric, the configuration changes are replicated

throughout the fabric.

The configuration you create using the command line interface (or GUI) can be uploaded to a host for

archiving. To restore the configuration to the zoning data base, use the restore fcswitch zones

command. If the SN 5428-2 is connected to the FC switched fabric, the restored zoning database will be

pushed into the fabric.

See Chapter 12, “Command Line Interface Reference,” for a complete list of all zoning and other

commands.

The following are SN 5428-2 zoning limits:

• Maximum of 256 zone sets

• Maximum of 256 zones

• Maximum of 256 aliases

• Maximum of 2000 members per zone

• Maximum of 2000 members per aliases

• Maximum of 2000 total members