[Info-vax] eva and switch zoning

[kiwi-red]

HI

If you are connect to your storage via a FC then you have some sort of zining.

there are two types, Hard and soft. Hard means you let anything that is in
port "A" talk to anything that is in port "B"

Soft zoning means that anything with wwn xxx can talk to anything with wwn yyy

log on to the switch and type:

cgfshow   this should show you what the current config is.

I like zoning. It means that multiple system can use the same storage at the same time.

If you don't need to do this, then you can directly connect your vms systems to the EVA and then you don't need the switches

Brocade switches are pretty easy to administer. Reminds me
of the terminal servers days. Type help

other useful commands:

alishow *
alicreate "alias", "wwn"
zhowshow *
zonecreate alias1_alias2, "alias1,alias2"
cfgadd "configname", "zonename"
cfgenable configname

cheers

antony














On Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:06:18 UTC+10, pcov... at gmail.com  wrote:
> Hi, I found out that my brocade 4gb switches are not zoned for my eva6400 in production, I only have 2 vms systems attached to it, so a is it necessary and b would it help performance?  and if I should have them zoned what does it entail? do I lose anything.
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> thanks
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> Paul