Zoning

[krishnan sukumaran]

Hi,

I am new to this forum, can some please explain zoning clearly.

[krishnan sukumaran]

i am new to san, i am in the process of learning things, please gurus help me to grow in this carrier.

Thanks,
Krishnan

[Torsten.]

good point to start from:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/CoreRedirect.jsp?redirectReason=DocIndexPDF&prodSeriesId=406734&targetPage=http%3A%2F%2Fbizsupport.austin.hp.com%2Fbc%2Fdocs%2Fsupport%2FSupportManual%2Fc00403562%2Fc00403562.pdf

HP StorageWorks SAN Design Reference Guide, Parts 1-5 (AA-RW86U-TE, March 2008)

good luck!

[krishnan sukumaran]

Hi Torsten,

Thanks, but i did not got a clear idea from that about zoning, i want to knew the definition of zoning, why zoning is done, can you please help.

Thanks,
Krishnan

[McCready · Accepted solution]

The short quick answer is that zoning will allow or restrict communication (depending on the initial configuration of the switch) between two devices on the SAN Fiber switch or other zoning device.

Typically, and in best practices, you want to limit devices on a SAN so that only the devices that need to communicate with each other will be able to. For instance, you would want a Windows Host to be able to use disks from a disk array, and you might want an AIX server to also use disks, but you might not want those two servers to be able to see each other via the SAN Switch.

And since you are new to the forum, make sure you ALWAYS assign points (up to 10 each) to an answer if it is useful (that is our only payment!)

[krishnan sukumaran]

McCready and Torsten thanks for the efforts for me to understand zoning.

[krishnan sukumaran]

McCready has given me a proper solutions to my question.

Thanks,
Krishnan