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Creating a ti zone – Brocade Fabric OS Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

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Figure 48

shows a logical representation of the configuration in

Figure 47

. This SAN is similar to that

shown in

Figure 39

on page 349 and you would set up the TI zones in the same way as described in

Traffic Isolation Zoning over FC routers

on page 348.

FIGURE 48 Logical representation of TI zones over FC routers in logical fabrics

Creating a TI zone

You create and modify TI zones using the zone command. Other zoning commands, such as
zoneCreate , aliCreate , and cfgCreate , cannot be used to manage TI zones.

When you create a TI zone, you can set the state of the zone to activated or deactivated. By default the
zone state is set to activated; however, this does not mean that the zone is activated. After you create
the TI zone, you must enable the current effective configuration to enforce the new TI zone, which is
either activated or deactivated.

Virtual Fabric considerations: Because base fabrics do not contain end devices, they normally do not
have an effective zone configuration. To activate a TI zone in a base fabric, you should create a
"dummy" configuration, as described in

Creating a TI zone in a base fabric

on page 365.

When you create a TI zone, you can enable or disable failover mode. By default, failover mode is
enabled. If you want to change the failover mode after you create the zone, see

Modifying TI zones

on

page 366.

If you are creating a TI zone with failover disabled, note the following:

• Ensure that the E_Ports of the TI zone correspond to valid paths; otherwise, the route might be

missing for ports in that TI zone. You can use the topologyShow command to verify the paths.

• Ensure that sufficient non-dedicated paths through the fabric exist for all devices that are not in a TI

zone; otherwise, these devices might become isolated.

See

TI zone failover

on page 342 for information about disabling failover mode.

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