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Configuration restrictions and guidelines
When you configure hard zoning, follow these restrictions and guidelines:
• When soft zoning is enough for meeting the access control requirements of a VSAN, you can
disable hard zoning for the VSAN to save the hardware entry resources.
• In basic zoning mode, you must manually configure hard zoning to ensure consistency across the
fabric. In enhanced zoning mode, zone distribution distributes hard zoning status with other zone
data.
• To view the hard zoning status, use the display zone status command.
• Do not configure the zone hard-zoning enable command when the switch is merging or distributing
zones.
Configuration procedure
To enable hard zoning:
Step Command Remarks
1. Enter system view. system-view N/A
2. Enter VSAN view. vsan vsan-id N/A
3. Enable hard zoning. zone hard-zoning enable
By default, hard zoning is
enabled.
Activating a zone set and distributing it to the entire
fabric
You can use the zoneset activate command to activate a zone set as the active zone set on a switch and
distribute the active zone set to the entire fabric. Then, the active zone set is used to implement access
control. The modifications to the active zone set do not take effect until reactivation.
The zone set to be activated must have been created and must contain at least one N_Port member. Only
one active zone set can exist in a VSAN. In basic zoning mode, if the size of the active zone set exceeds
the system limit, the activation fails.
In basic zoning mode, the distribution type specified by using the zoneset distribute full command
applies to distribution operations triggered by the zoneset activate command. In enhanced zoning mode,
the zoneset distribute full command is not supported, and the distribution type is always complete.
In either basic or enhanced zoning mode, the system prints a log message if the activation fails. In this
case, reactivate the zone set to ensure a consistent active zone set across the fabric.
To activate a zone set and distribute it to the entire fabric:
Step Command
1. Enter system view. system-view
2. Enter VSAN view. vsan vsan-id