Dell PowerConnect Brocade 300 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 - Page 459

SAN management with Admin Domains 17 The AD zone database also has the following characteristics: - Each zone database has its own name space. For example, you can define a zone name of test_z1 in more than one Admin Domain. - There is no zone database linked to the physical fabric (AD255) and no support for zone database updates. In the physical fabric context (AD255), you can only view the complete hierarchical zone database, which is all of the zone databases in AD0 through AD254. - You can concurrently edit the separate zone databases. - With AD support, zoning updates are supported selectively at each AD level. For example, a zone change in AD1 results in an update request only for the AD1 zone database. Zoning operations ignore any resources not in the Admin Domain, even if they are specified in the zone. The behavior functions similarly to specifying offline devices in a zone. All zones from each AD zone configuration are enforced. The enforcement policy encompasses zones in the effective zone configuration of the root zone database and the effective zone configurations of each AD. NOTE You must define the Admin Domain members in the same way that they are defined as zone members. That is, if an object is defined by WWN in a zone, it must be defined by WWN in an Admin Domain. If it is defined by domain,index in a zone, it must be defined by domain,index in the Admin Domain. If both zoning schemes are used, then objects must be defined in the Admin Domain by both WWN and domain,index. Using the zone --validate command, you can see all zone members that are not part of the current zone enforcement table but are part of the zoning database. A member might not be part of the zone enforcement table for the following reasons: • The device is offline. • The device is online but is not part of the current Admin Domain. Refer to "Validating a zone" on page 323 for instructions on using the zone --validate command. NOTE AD zone databases do not have an enforced size limit. The zone database size is calculated by the upper limit of the AD membership definition and the sum of all the zone databases for each AD. Admin Domains support the default zone mode of No Access only. Before configuring any Admin Domain, you must set the default zone to No Access mode. Admin Domains without effective zone configurations are presented with No Access. Refer to "Default zoning mode" on page 326 for more information. If the administrative domain feature is not active (AD1 through AD254 are not configured and no explicit members are added to AD0), AD0 supports both All Access and No Access default zone modes. Admin Domains and LSAN zones Logical storage area networks (LSANs) under each Admin Domain are collated into a single name space and sent out to FCR phantom domains using the following format: _AD For example, a zone with name lsan_for_linux_farm in AD5 is internally converted to lsan_for_linux_farm_AD005. Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 459 53-1002745-02