About Zoning
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.
Zoning has the following features:
- A zone consists of multiple zone members.
- A zone set consists of one or more zones.
- Zoning can be administered from any switch in the fabric.
- Zone changes can be configured nondisruptively. New zones and zone sets can be activated without interrupting traffic on unaffected ports or devices.
- Zone membership criteria is based on WWNs or FC IDs.
- IPv6 addressThe IPv6 address of an attached device in 128 bits in colon(:)-separated hexadecimal format.
- Default zone membership includes all ports or WWNs that do not have a specific membership association. Access between default zone members is controlled by the default zone policy.
- You can configure up to 8000 zones per VSAN and a maximum of 8000 zones for all VSANs on the switch.
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