Zone Implementation - Cisco AP776A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5020 Configuration Manual

Cisco mds 9000 family cli configuration guide - release 4.x (ol-18084-01, february 2009)

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Configuring and Managing Zones

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Of course, there are other ways to partition this fabric into zones.

possibility. Assume that there is a need to isolate storage system S2 for the purpose of testing new

software. To achieve this, zone 3 is configured, which contains only host H2 and storage S2. You can

restrict access to just H2 and S2 in zone 3, and to H1 and S1 in zone 1.

Zone Implementation

All switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family automatically support the following basic zone features (no

additional configuration is required):

OL-18084-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x

Fabric with Two Zones

Fabric with Three Zones

Zones are contained in a VSAN.

Hard zoning cannot be disabled.

Name server queries are soft-zoned.

Only active zone sets are distributed.

Unzoned devices cannot access each other.

A zone or zone set with the same name can exist in each VSAN.

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