User`s guide

3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning a Fabric
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3.5.6
Managing Zone Sets
Zoning a fabric involves creating a zone set, creating zones as zone set members,
then adding devices as zone members. The zoning database supports multiple
zone sets to serve the different security and access needs of your storage area
network, but only one zone set can be active at one time. Managing zone sets
consists of the following tasks:
■ Creating zone sets
■ Activating and deactivating zone sets
■ Copying a zone to a zone set
■ Removing a zone from one zone set or from all zone sets
■ Removing a zone set
■ Removing all zoning definitions
3.5.6.1
Creating a Zone Set
To create a zone set, do the following:
1. Open the Zoning menu, and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning
window.
2. Open the Edit menu, and select Create Zone Set to open the Create Zone
Set window.
3. Enter a name for the zone set, and choose the OK button. The new zone set
name is displayed in the Zone Sets window. A zone set name must begin
with a letter and be no longer than 64 characters. Valid characters are 0-9,
A-Z, a-z, _, and -.
4. To create new zones in a zone set, do one of the following:
■ Right-click a zone set and select Create A Zone from the popup menu.
In the Create a Zone window, enter a name for the new zone, and
choose the OK button. The new zone name is displayed in the Zone
Sets window.
■ Copy an existing zone by dragging a zone into the new zone set. Refer
to ”Copying a Zone to a Zone Set” on page 3-19.
5. Choose the Apply button to save changes to the zoning database.
Note: Changes that you make to the zoning database are limited to the
managed switch and do not propagate to the rest of the fabric. To
distribute changes to configured zone sets fabric wide, you must edit
the zoning databases on the individual switches.