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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
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Zone Configuration
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.
As of Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x, advanced zoning capabilities specified in the FC-GS-4 and
FC-SW-3 standards are provided by the Cisco SAN-OS software. You have the option of using the
existing basic zoning capabilities or using the advanced, standards-compliant zoning capabilities.
This chapter includes the following sections:
•Zoning Features, page 15-1
•Using the Zone Configuration Tool, page 15-3
•Adding Zone Members, page 15-5
•Alias Configuration, page 15-6
•Zone Set Creation, page 15-9
•Performing Zone Merge Analysis, page 15-17
•Zone-Based Traffic Priority, page 15-20
•About LUN Zoning, page 15-21
•About Read-Only Zones, page 15-23
Zoning Features
For Fabric Manager Release 2.0(1b), Fabric Manager has added the following to its zoning capabilities:
•Aliases are treated as groups.
•You can have many different types of aliases.
•You can rename zone sets, zones, and aliases.
•You can backup and restore zone database.
•There are enhanced zoning capabilities.
A zone set consists of one or more zones. A zone can be a member of more than one zone set and consists
of multiple zone members. Members in a zone can access each other; members in different zones cannot
access each other. Devices can belong to more than one zone.