3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning a Fabric
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3.4
Zoning a Fabric
Zoning enables you to divide the ports and devices of the fabric into zones for
more efficient and secure communication among functionally grouped nodes. This
subsection addresses the following topics:
■ Zoning concepts
■ Using the Zoning Config window
■ Restoring default zoning
■ Merging fabrics and zoning
■ Using the Edit Zoning window
■ Managing zone sets
■ Managing zones
■ Managing aliases
3.4.1
Zoning Concepts
The following zoning concepts provide some context for the zoning tasks
described in this section:
■ Zones
■ Aliases
■ Zone sets
■ Zoning database
■ Zoning configuration