Dell PowerConnect Brocade M6505 Brocade 7.1.0 Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Page 131

Administering Zoning Chapter 8 In this chapter •Zoning overview 103 •Zoning configurations 104 •Zoning management 105 •Zone configuration and zoning database management 115 •Best practices for zoning 122 Zoning overview This chapter describes zoning and provides the procedures for managing zoning. The Zone Admin window provides two zoning options on the left pane: • Basic zones • Traffic isolation zones You can perform basic zoning and traffic isolation zones using Web Tools and Web Tools with the EGM license. Basic zones Basic zoning enables you to partition a storage area network (SAN) into logical groups of devices that can access each other. For example, you can partition a SAN into two zones, winzone and unixzone, so that the Windows servers and storage do not interact with UNIX servers and storage. Zones can be configured dynamically. They can vary in size, depending on the number of fabric-connected devices, and devices can belong to more than one zone. Because zone members can access only other members of the same zone, a device not included in a zone is not available to members of that zone. Traffic Isolation zones A traffic isolation zone (TI zone) is a special zone that creates a dedicated path for a specific traffic flow. TI zones are primarily for shaping and controlling traffic rather than partitioning access to storage. Web Tools Administrator's Guide 103 53-1002756-01