Dell PowerEdge M710 Web Tools Administrator’s Guide - Page 147
Administering Zoning, In this Zoning overview, Basic zones
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DRAFT: BROCADE CONFIDENTIAL Administering Zoning Chapter 9 In this chapter •Zoning overview 119 •Zoning configurations 121 •Zoning management 121 •Zone configuration and zoning database management 131 •Best practices for zoning 138 Zoning overview This chapter describes zoning and provides the procedures for managing zoning. The Zoning Administration 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. Table 13 describes the zoning features that are no longer supported in Web Tools, but are supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition. .TABLE 13 Zoning features supported in DCFM Professional and Enterprise Edition Description DCFM Professional Edition DCFM Enterprise Edition Live Fabric library scope yes yes QoS support yes yes Remove offline devices no yes Device to zone, zoneset participation yes yes analysis Rolling back an already activated zone no yes DB Importing/Exporting of a zone DB no yes to/from file system in XML format 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. Web Tools Administrator's Guide 119 53-1001772-01
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