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Configuring and Managing Zones
This chapter describes how to configure and manage zones.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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Information About Zones
Zoning enables you to set up access control between storage devices or user groups. If you have administrator
privileges in your fabric, you can create zones to increase network security and to prevent data loss or corruption.
Zoning is enforced by examining the source-destination ID field.
Advanced zoning capabilities specified in the FC-GS-4 and FC-SW-3 standards are supported. You can use
either the existing basic zoning capabilities or the advanced, standards-compliant zoning capabilities.
Information About Zoning
Zoning Features
Zoning includes the following features:
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A zone consists of multiple zone members.
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Members in a zone can access each other; members in different zones cannot access each other.
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If zoning is not activated, all devices are members of the default zone.
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If zoning is activated, any device that is not in an active zone (a zone that is part of an active zone
set) is a member of the default zone.
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Zones can vary in size.
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Devices can belong to more than one zone.
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A physical fabric can have a maximum of 16,000 members. This includes all VSANs in the fabric.
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A zone set consists of one or more zones.
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