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    This tutorial provides instructions for setting up zoning on a Brocade switch using commands like alicreate, zonecreate, cfgcreate, and cfgenable. Zoning logically groups ports and devices to control access. It creates aliases for ports/devices and zones containing members that can access each other. The example sets up two configurations that present LUNs from one device to either controller 2 or 3 on a host by changing the active configuration.

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    This tutorial provides instructions for setting up zoning on a Brocade switch using commands like alicreate, zonecreate, cfgcreate, and cfgenable. Zoning logically groups ports and devices to control access. It creates aliases for ports/devices and zones containing members that can access each other. The example sets up two configurations that present LUNs from one device to either controller 2 or 3 on a host by changing the active configuration.

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    This tutorial provides instructions for setting up zoning on a Brocade switch using commands like alicreate, zonecreate, cfgcreate, and cfgenable. Zoning logically groups ports and devices to control access. It creates aliases for ports/devices and zones containing members that can access each other. The example sets up two configurations that present LUNs from one device to either controller 2 or 3 on a host by changing the active configuration.

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    Zoning provides a way to logically group ports, interfaces, and switches to organize a SAN. It uses configurations, aliases, and zones to control access between devices.

    Zoning logically groups ports, interfaces, and switches into configurations that contain aliases and zones. Aliases assign names to ports or WWNs, and zones define which devices can access each other by grouping aliases and ports/WWNs together.

    The main commands for zoning are alicreate to define aliases, zonecreate to define zones, cfgcreate to define configurations, cfgenable to make a configuration active, and cfgdisable/cfgsave to disable or save configurations.

    Zoning Brocade switches - Tutorial

    This tutorial provides a quick walk-through of setting up zoning on a Brocade switch.


    It is not a comprehensive review of the topic, but it may give you some familiarity
    with the commands and syntax necessary to set up zoning in the Brocade
    environment.

    What is zoning?

    Zoning provides a way to logically group together the components of a SAN. Ports,
    interfaces and even switches themselves can be grouped together into
    configurations that work together to make SANs more orderly and less daunting.

    Managing configurations

    All zoning in the Brocade environment is done within configurations. A


    configuration contains aliases and zones.

    An alias is a tool to simplify repetitive port numbers or WWN entries into an easy-
    to-remember name. For instance: rather than typing in the WWN
    "50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17" in zoning operations, one could use an alias to identify
    the WWN as being "DF350_intfc_0". Aliases can also be used to identify multiple
    ports or WWNs by a single name. All zoning commands accept aliases as valid
    parameters.

    A zone is a set of devices that access one another. All devices connected to a
    Fabric may be configured into one or more zones. Devices that are in the same zone
    can see each other, devices that are in different zones can not.

    Commands used in this example

    alicreate : Creates new zone aliases. Assigns a name to a list of alias members.
    Alias members can include port numbers (for example; 1,2 indicates switch 1, port
    2) or WorldWide? names. If there are multiple alias members, all members must be
    separated by semicolons within the list of alias members.

    example : alicreate "df350_intfc_0", "50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17"

    zonecreate : Groups a list of zone members under a zone name. Zone members
    can include port numbers, WorldWide? names, or aliases created by the alicreate
    command. Multiple zone members must be separated by semicolons within the list
    of zone members.

    example : zonecreate "c2zone", "snowtop_c2; df350_intfc_1"

    cfgcreate : Assigns a configuration name to a list of configuration members. The


    configuration members are all zones Multiple configuration members are separated
    by semicolons.
    example : cfgcreate "c2config", "c2zone"

    cfgenable : Checks a specified configuration for errors and makes it the active
    configuration of the switch. Note: No zoning is applied to the switch until the
    cfgenable command completes successfully. If there is already an active
    configuration, cfgenable will replace the active configuration with the specified
    configuration.

    example : cfgenable "c2config"

    cfgdisable : Deactivates a specified configuration

    example : cfgdisable "c2config"

    cfgsave : Saves zoning information to switch's flash memory. Configuration will not
    survive a reboot of the switch until the configuration is saved.

    cfgclear : Deactivates and removes all zoning information from active memory. To
    remove a configuration from flash memory, run cfgsave after cfgclear.

    zoneshow : Shows zoning configuration.

    switchshow : Shows overall configuration of switch. WWNs, login types (F-port, L-


    Port etc.) port status and some general switch info show up in switchshow.

    Setting up a zoning configuration

    The following example sets up a switch so that the LUNs presented on controller 0
    of a DF350 Fibre unit are presented either to controller 2 or controller 3 of a Sun
    Solaris host depending on which configuration is activated.

    Please note : If ANY ports on a switch are in an active zone configuration,


    ALL ports on the switch MUST be zoned in order to be useable. Since this
    example only uses ports 4-7 of the switch, ports 0-3 would not be useable
    until they were included in the active zoning configuration.

    'Another note : Usually it is best to zone by WWN, rather than by port


    number. That way, if a port goes bad the user just has to move the
    affected interface cable to a different port on the switch and the zoning
    should still be in place.

    login: admin
    Password:

    sw2400_68:admin> switchshow
    switchName: sw2400_68
    switchType: 3.2
    switchState: Online
    switchRole: Principal
    switchDomain: 1
    switchId: fffc01
    switchWwn: 10:00:00:60:69:20:13:c0
    port 0: sw No_Light
    port 1: sw No_Light
    port 2: sw No_Light
    port 3: sw No_Light
    port 4: sw Online F-Port 50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:5d
    port 5: sw Online F-Port 50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17
    port 6: sw Online F-Port 20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:23
    port 7: sw Online F-Port 20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:45
    sw2400_68:admin> alicreate "df350_intfc_0", "50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17"
    sw2400_68:admin> alicreate "df350_intfc_1", "50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:5d"
    sw2400_68:admin> alicreate "snowtop_c2", "20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:45"
    sw2400_68:admin> alicreate "snowtop_c3", "20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:23"
    sw2400_68:admin> zoneshow
    Defined configuration:
    alias: df350_intfc_0
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17
    alias: df350_intfc_1
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:5d
    alias: snowtop_c2
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:45
    alias: snowtop_c3
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:23

    Effective configuration:
    no configuration in effect

    sw2400_68:admin> zonecreate "c2zone", "snowtop_c2; df350_intfc_1"


    sw2400_68:admin> zonecreate "c3zone", "snowtop_c3; df350_intfc_1"
    sw2400_68:admin> zoneshow
    Defined configuration:
    zone: c2zone snowtop_c2; df350_intfc_1
    zone: c3zone snowtop_c3; df350_intfc_1
    alias: df350_intfc_0
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17
    alias: df350_intfc_1
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:5d
    alias: snowtop_c2
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:45
    alias: snowtop_c3
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:23
    Effective configuration:
    no configuration in effect

    sw2400_68:admin> cfgcreate "c2config", "c2zone"


    sw2400_68:admin> cfgcreate "c3config", "c3zone"
    sw2400_68:admin> zoneshow
    Defined configuration:
    cfg: c2config
    c2zone
    cfg: c3config
    c3zone
    zone: c2zone snowtop_c2; df350_intfc_1
    zone: c3zone snowtop_c3; df350_intfc_1
    alias: df350_intfc_0
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17
    alias: df350_intfc_1
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:5d
    alias: snowtop_c2
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:45
    alias: snowtop_c3
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:23

    Effective configuration:
    no configuration in effect

    sw2400_68:admin> cfgenable "c2zone"


    error: "c2zone" is not a configuration
    sw2400_68:admin> cfgenable "c2config"
    zone config "c2config" is in effect
    sw2400_68:admin> zoneshow
    Defined configuration:
    cfg: c2config
    c2zone
    cfg: c3config
    c3zone
    zone: c2zone snowtop_c2; df350_intfc_1
    zone: c3zone snowtop_c3; df350_intfc_1
    alias: df350_intfc_0
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:17
    alias: df350_intfc_1
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:5d
    alias: snowtop_c2
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:45
    alias: snowtop_c3
    20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:23
    Effective configuration:
    cfg: c2config
    zone: c2zone 20:00:00:e0:69:c0:08:45
    50:00:0e:10:00:00:00:5d

    What does this configuration look like on the Sun Solaris host?

    After a reconfiguration boot, this is what the host sees when the " c2config "
    configuration is used on the switch.

    # format
    Searching for disks...done

    c2t0d1: configured with capacity of 32.45GB


    c2t0d2: configured with capacity of 15.51GB

    AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:


    0. c0t0d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133>
    /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
    1. c2t0d0 <HITACHI-DF350F-0000 cyl 17 alt 2 hd 8 sec 65>
    /pci@6,4000/fibre-channel@2/sd@0,0
    2. c2t0d1 <HITACHI-DF350F-0000 cyl 65438 alt 2 hd 16 sec 65>
    /pci@6,4000/fibre-channel@2/sd@0,1
    3. c2t0d2 <HITACHI-DF350F-0000 cyl 62539 alt 2 hd 8 sec 65>
    /pci@6,4000/fibre-channel@2/sd@0,2

    Changing the configuration

    To change the configuration, simply log into the switch and activate the " c3config
    " configuration that we created earlier.

    sw2400_68:admin> cfgenable "c3config"


    zone config "c3config" is in effect

    After a reconfiguration boot, the Sun Solaris host now sees the new configuration.
    The LUNs that used to be presented to controller 2 are now presented to controller
    3:

    # format
    Searching for disks...done

    c3t0d1: configured with capacity of 32.45GB


    c3t0d2: configured with capacity of 15.51GB

    AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:


    0. c0t0d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133>
    /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
    1. c3t0d0 <HITACHI-DF350F-0000 cyl 17 alt 2 hd 8 sec 65>
    /pci@6,4000/fibre-channel@3/sd@0,0
    2. c3t0d1 <HITACHI-DF350F-0000 cyl 65438 alt 2 hd 16 sec 65>
    /pci@6,4000/fibre-channel@3/sd@0,1
    3. c3t0d2 <HITACHI-DF350F-0000 cyl 62539 alt 2 hd 8 sec 65>
    /pci@6,4000/fibre-channel@3/sd@0,2

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