HP Surestore 6164 Switch - Manual (Page 25)

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USING QUICKLOOP ZONES
In addition to zoning fabrics, covered in Chapter 3, Zoning also allows you
to zone QuickLoops. By partitioning selected devices within a QuickLoop
into a QuickLoop zone you can enhance management of a Fibre Channel
Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) in a legacy environment.
In QuickLoop zoning, devices within a QuickLoop can be partitioned off
within that QuickLoop to form QuickLoop zones; in other words, a
QuickLoop Zone is a subset of a QuickLoop and can include only
QuickLoop devices.
Fabric zones and QuickLoop zones are independent of each other; both
types of zones can co-exist in the same zone configuration, and QuickLoop
devices can be included within a fabric zone configuration. Although
devices within a QuickLoop can be seen by a public host, devices within
each QuickLoop are only visible to devices within their own QuickLoop.