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Zone Administration

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About Zone Administration

HP Zoning enables you to partition your Storage Area Network (SAN) into 
logical groupings of devices that can access each other. For example, you can 
partition your SAN into two zones, winzone and unixzone, so that your Windows 
servers and storage do not interact with your UNIX servers and storage. 

Alias Description

An alias is a logical group of ports, WWNs, or AL_PAs. Specifying groups of 
ports or devices as an alias makes zone configuration easier, by enabling you to 
configure zones using an alias rather than a long string of individual members. 
You can specify members of an alias using the following methods:

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A switch domain and port area number pair, for example, "2, 20."

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WWN (device)

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QuickLoop AL_PAs (device)

Zone Description

A zone is a region within the fabric, where switches and devices can 
communicate. A device can only communicate with other devices connected to 
the fabric within its specified zone. You can specify members of a Zone using the 
following methods:

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Alias names

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Switch domain and port area number pair, for example, "2, 20." 

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WWN (device)

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QuickLoop AL_PAs (device)

Configuration Description

A configuration (often called a config) is a group of zones; Zoning is enabled on a 
fabric by enabling a specific config. You can specify members of a config using 
the following methods:

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Zone names

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QuickLoop names

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FA (Fabric Assist) zone names