HP StorageWorks 2.64 Director Switch - Manual (Page 86)

Configuring Zones
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■ Is typically proprietary and protects only a specific vendor’s storage devices.
Storage-level access control may not be available for many legacy devices.
Before establishing persistent binding or access control features at the storage
device, consult with your managed-product vendor’s professional services
organization.
Zoning Concepts
Zoning is configured by authorizing or restricting access to name server
information associated with device ports that attach to product ports. A zone
member is specified by the number of the product port to which a device is
attached, or by the 8-byte WWN assigned to the HBA or Fibre Channel interface
installed in a device. A device port can belong to multiple zones.
Zoning concepts include:
■ Zones
■ Default Zone
■ Zone Sets
■ Active Zone Set
Naming Conventions for Zones and Zone Sets
The following naming conventions apply to zones and zone sets:
■ All names must be unique and may not differ by case only. For example,
myzone and MyZone are both valid individually, but they are not unique.
■ The first character of a zone set name must be a letter (A—Z, a—z).
■ A zone set name cannot contain spaces.
■ Valid characters are a—z, A—Z, 0—9, ^, -, _, and $.
■ A zone set name can have a maximum of 64 characters.
Zones
A zone contains a set of members that can access each other. Refer to Table 3 for
details on the number of members that you can configure in a zone and the
number of zones that you can configure with the EWS Configure Zone functions.
A zone member can be a switch or director port or the WWN of the device. Ports
and devices spread throughout multiple managed products in a multiswitch fabric
may be grouped into the same zone. Members of a zone can see each other;
members in different zones cannot. The number of members that you can