HP Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide - Release 4. - Page 605

Send documentation comments to [email protected] 24 C H A P T E R Configuring and Managing Zones Zoning enables you to set up access control between storage devices or user groups. If you have administrator privileges in your fabric, you can create zones to increase network security and to prevent data loss or corruption. Zoning is enforced by examining the source-destination ID field. Advanced zoning capabilities specified in the FC-GS-4 and FC-SW-3 standards are provided. You can use either the existing basic zoning capabilities or the advanced, standards-compliant zoning capabilities. This chapter includes the following sections: • About Zoning, page 24-1 • Zone Configuration, page 24-6 • Zone Sets, page 24-7 • Zone Set Distribution, page 24-13 • Zone Set Duplication, page 24-16 • Advanced Zone Attributes, page 24-18 • Displaying Zone Information, page 24-24 • Enhanced Zoning, page 24-30 • Compacting the Zone Database for Downgrading, page 24-40 • Zone and Zone Set Analysis, page 24-40 • Default Settings, page 24-41 Note Table 20-1 on page 20-4 lists the differences between zones and VSANs. About Zoning Zoning has the following features: • A zone consists of multiple zone members. - Members in a zone can access each other; members in different zones cannot access each other. - If zoning is not activated, all devices are members of the default zone. - If zoning is activated, any device that is not in an active zone (a zone that is part of an active zone set) is a member of the default zone. OL-18084-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide 24-1