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Enhanced Zoning Configuring and Managing Zones Enhanced Zoning The zoning feature complies with the FC-GS-4 and FC-SW-3 standards. Both standards support the basic zoning functionalities explained in the previous section and the enhanced zoning functionalities described in this section. About Enhanced Zoning The following table lists the advantages of the enhanced zoning feature in all switches in the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series. Table 78: Advantages of Enhanced Zoning Basic Zoning Enhanced Zoning Enhanced Zoning Advantages Administrators can make Performs all configurations within One configuration session for the simultaneous configuration a single configuration session. entire fabric to ensure consistency changes. Upon activation, one When you begin a session, the within the fabric. administrator can overwrite another switch locks the entire fabric to administrator's changes. implement the change. If a zone is part of multiple zone References to the zone are used by Reduced payload size as the zone sets, you create an instance of this the zone sets as required once you is referenced. The size is more zone in each zone set define the zone. pronounced with bigger databases. The default zone policy is defined Enforces and exchanges the default Fabric-wide policy enforcement per switch. To ensure smooth zone setting throughout the fabric. reduces troubleshooting time. fabric operation, all switches in the fabric must have the same default zone setting. To retrieve the results of the Retrieves the activation results and Enhanced error reporting eases the activation on a per switch basis, the the nature of the problem from troubleshooting process managing switch provides a each remote switch. combined status about the activation. It does not identify the failure switch. To distribute the zoning database, Implements changes to the zoning Distribution of zone sets without you must reactivate the same zone database and distributes it without activation avoids hardware changes set. The reactivation may affect reactivation. for hard zoning in the switches. hardware changes for hard zoning on the local switch and on remote switches. The Cisco-specific zone member Provides a vendor ID along with a Unique vendor type. types (symbolic node name, and vendor-specific type value to other types) may be used by other uniquely identify a member type. non-Cisco switches. During a merge, the Cisco-specific types can Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide 560 OL-16597-01