Zonning

[Hoang H. Nguyen]

Hi Experts:

I have a HP EVA 5000 SAN and a few of HPUX servers with 11.0 and 11i OS connecting together
Through 2 Fibre Chanel Switches. I can create the LUN's and see the disks without problems.
Now, I would like to do Zonning. What manual or user's guide I should read.
This is the test evironment.

Thanks in advance.

[Andrzej Kowalik]

First of all SAN Design Reference Guide
http://h200001.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00093931/c00093931.pdf
This is main place where you can find all necessary information
regards,
Andrzej

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

I would start with the manual (or user guide) for the FC switches. It should contain something about zoning and zoning concepts.

[Hoang H. Nguyen]

Hi Andrzej,

The doccument is very helpfull, but I would like to have a litle bit more detail on the procedure of zonning.

Thanks.

[Slawomir Gora · Accepted solution]

Hi,

look at doc in appendix

[Slawomir Gora]

Hi,

simple port zoning procedure from command line:

zonecreate "va_zone" "2,1;2,2"
zonecreate "backup_zone" "2,3;2,4"
cfgcreate "conf1","va_zone"
cfgadd "conf1","backup_zone"
cfgSave
cfgenable conf1

sample with WWN zonning:

aliCreate "HOST1", "20:00:00:e0:69:41:34:02";
aliCreate "VA_P0", "20:00:00:e0:69:41:11:01";
zonecreate "va_zone" "HOST1; VA_P0";
cfgcreate "conf1","va_zone"
cfgSave
cfgenable conf1

[deepak bajpai]

Hi,

I am configuring my SAN setup and would form a multipath cluster on it.following are the hardware am using

Nodes : 4 hp DL 380 G3
Storage: 1 MSA 1000
Switches: 2 2/16 fiber channel switches

I know about three techniques when we form multipath cluster or multiple clusters:
1)zoning
2)secure path software
3)Lun Masking

When should I use what?

will it do if i use only Lun masking and secure path while installing 1 multipath cluster?

will it require zoning also if I form more than one multipath clusters using 1 MSA 1000?

Thanks,
Deepak

[Hoang H. Nguyen]

Hi Slawomir,

Thank you very much for your quick replies, the doccument and the samples are very helpfull.

[andy steven]

hi

on the brocade website they have a best practice zoning white paper, its the best i have read.