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3 – Managing Fabrics
Zoning a Fabric

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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:

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Zoning concepts

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Using the Zoning Config dialog

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Restoring default zoning

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Using the Edit Zoning window

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Merging fabrics and zoning

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Managing zone sets

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Managing zones

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Managing aliases

The following zoning concepts provide some context for the zoning tasks 
described in this section:

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Zones

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Aliases

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Zone sets

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Zoning database

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Zoning configuration

A zone is a named group of ports or devices that can communicate with each 
other. Membership in a zone can be defined by domain ID and port number, 
device Fibre Channel address, or device World Wide Name (WWN). Zone 
members can communicate only with members of the same zone.

Three types of zones are supported. The following zone types define increasingly 
restrictive levels of communication.

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Soft zone

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Access Control List (ACL) - hard zone

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Virtual Private Fabric (VPF) - hard zone