FW 07.00.00/HAFM SW 08.06.00 McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual (620-000159-320, April 2005)

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Task 22: Configure Zoning (Optional)
Perform this procedure to:
• Configure, change, add, or delete zones. A zone is a group of
devices that can access each other through port- to-port
connections. Devices in the same zone can recognize and
communicate with each other; devices in different zones cannot.
• Configure, change, enable, or disable zone sets. A zone set is a
group of zones that is activated or deactivated as a single entity
across all managed products in either a single switch or a
multiswitch fabric. Only one zone set can be active at one time.
If the installation is being performed from the SANpilot interface, go
to Configure Zones (SANpilot Interface) below. If the installation is
being performed from the management server, zoning is configured
on a fabric-wide basis through the SAN management application.
Refer to the SANavigator Software Release 4.0 User Manual (621-000013)
or EFC Manager Software Release 8.0 User Manual (620-000170) for
instructions.
Configure Zones
(SANpilot Interface)
To configure zones at the SANpilot interface:
1. At the Configure panel, click the Zoning tab. The Zoning page
displays with the Zone Set tab selected. Click the Zones tab. The
Zoning page displays with the Zones tab selected (Figure 2-110 on
page 2-122).
2. To configure a zone, first add the zone name to the zoning library.
The following naming conventions apply to zones and zone sets:
• All names must be unique and may not differ by case only. For
example, zone-1 and Zone-1 are both valid individually, but
are not considered unique.
• The first character of a zone set name must be a letter
(A through Z or a through z).
• A zone set name cannot contain spaces.
• Valid characters are alphanumerics and the caret ( ^ ),
hyphen ( - ), underscore ( _ ), or dollar ( $ ) symbols.
• A zone set name can have a maximum of 64 characters.