VSAN (VSAN 1) that initially includes all ports, and an isolated VSAN (VSAN 4094) where ports end up if their owning VSAN is deleted.

W

Web-Based Enterprise

Management

(WBEM)Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is an initiative based on a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. WBEM provides the ability for the industry to deliver a well-integrated set of standard-based management tools leveraging the emerging technologies such as CIM and XML.

Windows

 

Management

 

Instrumentation

Microsoft created WMI as its implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management

(WMI)

 

(WBEM). For more information about WMI, refer to the Microsoft Web site at

 

http://www.microsoft.com.

 

The Windows CIM Extension enhances Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

 

so that it can gather information from host bus adapters and make the information

 

available to the management server.

Worldwide Name

A type of zoning in which the port is assigned to a Worldwide Name of a host or a

(WWN) zoning

 

storage system. It is not dependent on the switch.

WWN (Worldwide

Fibre-channel Worldwide Name. Usually formatted as 16-hexadecimal digits. This

Name)

 

name is globally unique, and it identifies the connection or set of connections to the

 

network.

 

 

Z

 

zone

A collection of zone aliases and ports.

zone alias

To avoid remembering a port's Worldwide Name (WWN), assign the port to a zone

 

alias.

zone member

A zone member is a port attached to a switch, a Worldwide Name (WWN) or a zone

 

alias.

 

As a best practice, a zone should contain either zone aliases or ports, but not both.

zone set

A zone set is a collection of zones. You can have only one zone set active in a fabric;

 

however, you can have a zone in more than one zone set. Zones sets are usually

 

created for a particular task.

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