IBM TotalStorage SAN140M, Installation And Service Manual

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Task 21: 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.
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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).
• 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.
If the installation is performed from the EFCM Basic Edition
interface, refer to the EFCM Basic Edition User Manual (620-000240) for
instructions. If the installation is performed from the management
server, refer to the EFC Manager Software Release 9.0 User Manual
(620-000170) for instructions.
Task 22: Connect director to a fabric element (optional)
To provide fabric-attached Fibre channel connectivity for devices
connected to the director, connect the director to an expansion port
(E_Port) of a fabric element (switch or director). Any switch can be
used to form this ISL. To connect the director to a fabric element and
create an ISL: