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Zoning Concepts

20 Zoning Version 3.1.x/4.1.x User Guide

About Zoning

A zone is a specified group of fabric-connected devices, also called zone objects.

Any device, or zone object, connected to the fabric can be included in one or more

zones. Each zone object within a zone can communicate only with other zone

objects within the same zone; any device outside of a zone cannot communicate

with zone objects located inside a zone. Once zoning is enabled, if a device is not

explicitly defined in a zone, that device will exist in a zone by itself and be

inaccessible by other devices in the fabric.

Zone objects are grouped into zones and zones are grouped in a zone

configuration. Zones can overlap; that is, a zone object can belong to more than

one zone and a fabric can have multiple zones. A switch can have any number of

zone configurations resident; however, only one configuration can be enabled at a

time.

Figure 2 illustrates three zones with some overlap. It also contains devices that are

not assigned to a zone, and are thus not active in the fabric if zoning is enabled.

Note: Once zoning is enabled, if a device is not defined in a zone, that device will

exist in a zone all by itself. The device will be isolated and be inaccessible by other

devices in the fabric.

Figure 2: Fabric with three zones

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