HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software - Manual (Page 328)

Provisioning Manager 298
About Provisioning Brocade Switches
After Upgrading
After you upgrade the management server, perform Discovery Data Collection/Get Details for any
subset of elements that includes the Brocade switch before performing any provisioning operations
that involve that Brocade switch. See ” Step 4 - Discovery Data Collection or Get Details ” on
page 80 for details.
Managing Zones
This section describes the following:
• ” SAN Zoning Overview ” on page 298
• ” Accessing Information About Zone Aliases ” on page 303
• ” Creating Zone Aliases ” on page 303
• ” Modifying a Zone Alias ” on page 304
• ” Deleting Zone Aliases ” on page 305
• ” Accessing Information About Zoning ” on page 305
• ” Creating a Zone in a Fabric ” on page 305
• ” Adding and Removing Zone Members ” on page 307
• ” Deleting Zones ” on page 307
• ” Accessing Information About Zone Sets ” on page 307
• ” Creating a Zone Set ” on page 308
• ” Modifying a Zone Set ” on page 309
• ” Deleting Zone Sets ” on page 310
• ” Copying a Zone Set ” on page 310
• ” Activating a Zone Set ” on page 311
• ” Zones and Zone Sets Are Sometimes Listed Twice ” on page 312
• ” Changing the Amount of Information Collected from the Inactive Zone Database (Cisco
Switches) ” on page 313
SAN Zoning Overview
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, Provisioning Manager may not be available. See the
“List of Features” to determine if you have access to Provisioning Manager. The “List of Features” is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
Use SAN zoning to control what can be seen in the storage area network (SAN). SAN zoning lets
you group elements into zones, which can then be grouped into active and inactive zone sets. Only
elements in an active zone set can be seen. A switch fabric can have multiple zone sets, but only
one zone set can be active.
Zones are an excellent way to split hardware resources because they work by exclusion. For
example, you can set up your switch ports so that elements connected to some of the ports appear