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Managing quickloops, Creating a quickloop, Adding and removing members of a quickloop – HP Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class User Manual

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5.

Click Yes.

The selected zone is deleted from the Zone Admin buffer.

Managing QuickLoops

QuickLoop is an HP software product that allows multiple ports on a switch to create a logical loop.

Devices connected via QuickLoop appear to each other as if they are on the same arbitrated loop.

QuickLoop can be administered using Fabric OS v4.x versions; however, switches or directors running

Fabric OS v4.x cannot be members of a QuickLoop. HP StorageWorks Core Switch 2/64, SAN Director

2/128, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/32, and SAN Switch 4/32 cannot be

members of a QuickLoop.

NOTE:

You must have a QuickLoop license installed to create or modify a QuickLoop.

Creating a QuickLoop

Use the following procedure to create a QuickLoop:

1.

Launch the Zone Admin module as described on

page 95

.

2.

Select a format to display zoning members in the Member Selection List as described in

Zoning

views

” on page 97.

3.

Click the QuickLoop tab.

4.

Click Create.
The Create New QuickLoop dialog box opens.

5.

Enter a name for the new QuickLoop.

6.

Click OK.

7.

Click an element in the Member Selection List that you want to include in your QuickLoop.
The Add Member button becomes active.

NOTE:

There is a limit of two members per QuickLoop. Only switches capable of running QuickLoop are

displayed in the Member Selection List.

8.

Click Add Member to add QuickLoop members.
Selected members are moved to the QuickLoop Members area.

9.

Optional: Repeat

step 7

and

step 8

to add a second element to your QuickLoop.

Adding and removing members of a QuickLoop

Use the following procedure to add or remove members of a QuickLoop:

1.

Launch the Zone Administration module as described on

page 95

.

2.

Click the QuickLoop tab.

3.

Select the QuickLoop you want to modify from the Name d list.

4.

Highlight an element in the Member Selection List that you want to include in your QuickLoop, or

highlight an element in the QuickLoop Members that you want to delete.

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