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Chapter
11

Administering Advanced Zoning

In this chapter
•Special zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
•Zoning overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
•Broadcast zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
•Zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
•Zone creation and maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
•Default zoning mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
•Zoning database size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
•Zoning configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
•Zone object maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
•Zoning configuration management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
•Security and zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
•Zone merging scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Special zones

Fabric OS has the following types of zones:
•Zones
Enable you to partition your fabric into logical groups of devices that can access each other.
These are “regular” or “normal” zones. Unless otherwise specified, all references to zones in
this chapter refer to these regular zones.
•Broadcast zones
Control which devices receive broadcast frames. A broadcast zone restricts broadcast packets
to only those devices that are members of the broadcast zone. See “Broadcast zones” on
page 244 for more information.
•Frame redirection zones
Re-route frames between an initiator and target through a Virtual Initiator and Virtual Target for
special processing or functionality, such as for storage virtualization or encryption. See “Frame
Redirection” on page 81 for more information.
•LSAN zones
Provide device connectivity between fabrics without merging the fabrics. See “LSAN zone
configuration” on page 477 for more information.