HP 8/20q HP StorageWorks 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch Command Line Interface Gui - Page 69
Zoning Configuration, Displaying zoning database information, Con d zoneset information
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6 Zoning Configuration Access to devices within the fabric is controlled by zoning. Some zoning strategies are: • Separating devices by operating system • Separating devices that have no need to communicate with other devices in the fabric or have classified data • Separating devices into department, administrative, or other functional group • Reserving a path and its bandwidth from one port to another A zone is a named group of ports or devices. Members of the same zone can communicate with each other and transmit outside the zone, but cannot receive inbound traffic from outside the zone. Zoning divides the fabric for purposes of controlling discovery and inbound traffic. Zoning is hardware-enforced only when a port/device is a member of no more than eight zones whose combined membership does not exceed 64. If this condition is not satisfied, that port behaves as a soft zone member. You can assign ports/devices to a zone individually or as a group by creating an alias. A zone can be a component of more than one zoneset. Several zonesets can be defined for a fabric, but only one zoneset can be active at one time. The active zoneset determines the current fabric zoning. Displaying zoning database information A switch maintains three zoning databases: • Non-volatile-This zoning database is permanent and contains all zonesets, zones, and aliases that you create and save on a switch. The zonesets in the non-volatile zoning database are known as configured zonesets. • Volatile-This zoning database is temporary. This means it is not retained across switch resets. The volatile zoning database can be the working copy of a zoneset being edited or an active zoneset received from another switch. In the latter case, this is also known as the merged zoneset. • Active-This zoning database is the active zoneset. You can display the following information about the zoning database: • Configured zoneset information, page 69 • Active zoneset information, page 71 • Merged zoneset information, page 72 • Edited zoneset information, page 72 • Zoneset membership information, page 72 • Orphan zone information, page 73 • Alias and alias membership information, page 74 • Zoning modification history, page 74 • Zoning database limits, page 75 Configured zoneset information The zoneset list and the zoning list commands display information about all zonesets in the non-volatile zoning database. To display a list of the zonesets, enter the zoneset list command, as shown in the following example: 8/20q FC Switch #> zoneset list Current List of ZoneSets alpha beta HP StorageWorks 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch Command Line Interface Guide 69