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SANbox-8/16 Switch Management
User’s Manual
59010-06 Rev. A
SANsurfer Switch Management
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Ports 1 through 12 in one zone, ports 13 through 16 in a second
zone.
5.
Hard Zones may include multiple physical groups. Rule 4 defines Physical
groups.
6.
An individual port can only be in one Hard Zone.
7.
If any port on the chassis is defined as being in an enabled Hard Zone, all
ports must be defined in enabled Hard Zones (No Hard Zone Orphans). A
Hard Zone Orphan is defined as a port not defined in any enabled Hard
Zone.
Hard Zone Rules (SANbox-8 and SANbox-16)
1.
A Hard Zone is only valid if it is enabled.
2.
If Hard Zones are enabled, Broadcast Zones and Name Server Zones may not
overlap Hard zone boundaries.
For example: If Hard Zoning in a particular Switch chassis places Port 6 in
one zone and Port 7 in another zone, Broadcast, Name Server, SL, or WWPN
Zoning must not include Ports 6 and 7 in the same zone.
3.
Hard Zones operate fabric-wide (regardless of fabric configuration).
4.
There is a maximum of 16 Hard Zones (independent of other zone types).
The SANsurfer management application and Utilities NT management appli-
cation number them 1 through 16.
5.
A port may be defined as being in only one Hard Zone (Hard Zones may not
overlap each other).
6.
If Hard Zones are enabled, all ports in the fabric must be defined in a Hard
Zone (that is, there may be no Hard Zone Orphans).
7.
If a particular Hard Zone exists in more than one Switch Chassis in a Multi-
Stage Switch, these scattered pieces of Hard Zone must be interconnected by
T_Ports as though they were separate chassis. They must use the same
topology as the rest of the fabric. That is, if the rest of the chassis are
connected in a Cascade topology, the Hard Zones must be connected in
Cascade. If the rest of the chassis are connected in a Mesh topology, the Hard
Zones must be connected in Mesh.
8.
If Hard Zones are enabled in a multistage switch topology, the ports in the
Cross-Connect chassis must have Hard Zones compatible with the I/O ports
they are cross-connecting. That is, I/O ports in a particular Hard Zone and
their corresponding Cross-Connect port or ports must all be in the same Hard
Zone.
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