About Provisioning Brocade Switches After Upgrading
After you upgrade the management server, perform Discovery Data Collection for any subset of elements that includes the Brocade switch before performing any provisioning operations that involve that switch. For more information, see ”Discovering Switches, Storage Systems, NAS Devices, and Tape Libraries” on page 19.
Managing ZonesThis section contains the following topics:
•SAN Zoning Overview, page 518
•Accessing Information About Zone Aliases, page 523
•Creating a Zone Alias, page 524
•Modifying a Zone Alias, page 525
•Deleting a Zone Alias, page 526
•Accessing Information About Zoning, page 526
•Creating a Zone in a Fabric, page 527
•Adding and Removing Zone Members, page 528
•Accessing Information About Zone Sets, page 528
•Creating a Zone Set, page 529
•Modifying a Zone Set, page 530
•Deleting a Zone Set, page 531
•Activating a Zone Set, page 532
•Zones and Zone Sets Listed Twice, page 533
•Changing the Amount of Information Collected from the Inactive Zone Database (Cisco Switches), page 534
SAN Zoning Overview
Use SAN zoning to control what can be seen in the storage area network (SAN). SAN zoning lets you group elements into zones, which can then be grouped into active and inactive zone sets. Only elements in an active zone set can be seen. A switch fabric can have multiple zone sets, but only one zone set can be active.
Uses of Zones
Zones are an excellent way to split hardware resources because they work by exclusion. For example, you can set up your switch ports so that elements connected to some of the ports appear in one zone and the rest appear in another zone. Members of a zone can only communicate with other members of the same zone. If two elements are not in the same zone, they cannot communicate.
Zones are usually created for a particular task, such as controlling access between devices or groups. You might create zones based on an application or an operating system. For example,
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