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Installation Tasks
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Installation Tasks
Task 21: Cable Fibre Channel Ports
Perform this task to cable Fibre Channel ports and connect devices:
1. Route fiber-optic jumper cables from Fibre Channel devices,
FC-AL devices, or fabric elements to director ports.
2. Connect device cables to optical port transceivers as directed by
the customer.
3. Perform one of the following:
• If the director is installed in a Fabricenter equipment cabinet,
bundle Fibre Channel cables from the director and other
equipment (groups of 16 maximum), and secure them in the
cablemanagementareaatthefront-leftsideofthecabinet.
• If the director is installed in an equipment rack, bundle Fibre
Channelcablesfromthe directorand otherequipment(groups
of 16 maximum), and secure them as directed by the customer.
• If the director is installed on a table or desktop, bundle and
secure Fibre Channel cables as directed by the customer.
Task 22: Configure Zoning (Optional)
Perform this procedure to configure, change, add, or delete zones;
and to configure, change, enable, or disable zone sets.
• Zone - 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.
• Zone set - 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.
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).