Q-Logic 59048-02 A manual Managing Zones, Creating a Zone in a Zone Set

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3 – Managing Fabrics Zoning a Fabric

3.4.7

Managing Zones

Managing zones involves the following:

„Creating a zone in a zone set

„Adding zone members

„Renaming a zone or a zone set

„Removing a zone member

„Removing a zone from a zone set

„Removing a zone from all zone sets

„Changing zone types

Note: Changes that you make to the zoning database are limited to the managed switch and do not propagate to the rest of the fabric. To distribute changes to configured zone sets fabric wide, you must edit the zoning databases on the individual switches.

3.4.7.1

Creating a Zone in a Zone Set

When a zone is created, its zone type is soft. To change the zone type to a hard zone, refer to ”Changing Zone Types” on page 3-28for more information. Refer to ”Zones” on page 3-14for information on zone types (soft and hard). To create a zone in a zone set, do the following:

1.Open the Zoning menu, and select Edit Zoning to open the Edit Zoning window.

2.Open the Edit menu and select Create a Zone.

3.In the Create a Zone dialog, enter a name for the new zone, and choose the OK button. The new zone name is displayed in the Zone Sets dialog. A zone name must begin with a letter and be no longer than 64 characters. Valid characters are 0-9, A-Z, a-z, _, and -.

Note: If you enter the name of a zone that already exists in the database, the SANbox Manager application will create a copy of that zone and its membership in the zone set.

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