Zoning limitations

SNMP requests can be received in either 3.0 or 3.1 of the Fibre Alliance (FA) MIB, and the switch responds in the same version. The switch can also be conﬁgured to use a speciﬁc version for traps generated by the switch.

With ﬁrmware 06.00.00 and later, you have the ability to conﬁgure large zone sets, including up to 1024 zones and 1024 end ports in a single zone set. Table 3 shows the supported limits for the edge switches and directors.

Table 3 Zoning parameters supported limits

Zoning parameter	Maximum value

Number of zone members in a zone	2048

Number of zones in a zone set	1024

Number of unique zone members in a zone set	2048

Total number of zone members in a zone set (where a zone	4096
member can be in multiple zones)

Characters per zoning name	32

Number of unique zone members in HAFM Zoning Library	2048

Number of zones in HAFM Zoning Library	1024

Number of zone sets in HAFM Zoning Library	64

Number of end ports	1024

Number of devices supported (including loop devices)	1024

Using the same ﬁrmware

All directors and edge switches in the same fabric should have the same ﬁrmware level installed—whether 1 Gbps or 2 Gbps capable, this ﬁrmware operates correctly.

The recently released Edge Switch 2/12 had an interim ﬁrmware speciﬁc for the Edge Switch 2/12, 05.05.00-12. This ﬁrmware cannot be used for any other edge switch or director. This interim version is compatible with the M-Series ﬁrmware 05.02.00-13 used for the rest of the M-Series fabric products. The ﬁrmware 07.01.02-4 is a common ﬁrmware for all the M-Series fabric products, including the Edge Switch 2/12.

Firmware 06.02.00-22 provides support for second-generation Edge Switch 2/12 and Edge Switch 2/24 switches. This is the minimum M-Series ﬁrmware supported on the second-generation Edge Switch 2/12 and Edge Switch 2/24.