Web Tools Administrator's Guide (53-1001772-01, June 2010)

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Chapter

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.

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

no yes

Importing/Exporting of a zone DB

to/from file system in XML format

no yes