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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 303
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Chapter
11
Administering Advanced Zoning
In this chapter
•Zone types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
•Zoning overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
•Broadcast zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
•Zone aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
•Zone creation and maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
•Default zoning mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
•Zone database size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
•Zone configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
•Zone object maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
•Zone configuration management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
•Security and zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
•Zone merging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
•Concurrent zone transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Zone types
Zones enable you to partition your fabric into logical groups of devices that can access each other.
These are “regular” or “standard” zones. Unless otherwise specified, all references to zones in this
chapter refer to these regular zones. Beyond this, Fabric OS has the following types of special 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 310 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 130 for more information.
• LSAN zones
Provide device connectivity between fabrics without merging the fabrics. See “LSAN zone
configuration” on page 590 for more information.