Administering Advanced Zoning
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Zone types
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Zoning overview
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Broadcast zones
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Zone aliases
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Zone creation and maintenance
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Default zoning mode
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Zone database size
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Zone configurations
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Zone object maintenance
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Zone configuration management
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Security and zoning
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Zone merging
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Concurrent zone transactions
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Peer Zoning
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340
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Target Driven Zoning
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Supported commands for Peer Zones and Target Driven Peer Zones
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Boot LUN zoning
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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:
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Broadcast zones
Control which devices receive broadcast frames. A broadcast zone restricts broadcast packets to members of the broadcast
zone only. Refer to
Broadcast zones
on page 303 for more information.
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Frame redirection zones
Re-route frames between an initiator and a target through a Virtual Initiator and Virtual Target for special processing or
functionality, such as for storage virtualization or encryption. Refer to
Frame Redirection
on page 123 for more information.
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LSAN zones
Provide device connectivity between fabrics without merging the fabrics. Refer to
LSAN zone configuration
on page 519 for
more information. LSAN zones support RFIDs.
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QoS zones
Assign high or low priority to designated traffic flows. These are regular zones with additional QoS attributes specified by
adding a QoS prefix to the zone name. Refer to
QoS
on page 388 for more information.
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Traffic Isolation zones (TI zones)
Isolate traffic to a specific, dedicated path through the fabric. Refer to
Traffic Isolation Zoning
on page 357 for more
information.
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Peer zones
Allow a principal device port to communicate with other members of the zone. Refer to
Peer Zoning
on page 340 for more
information.
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Target driven zones
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