You can get this information from switch by running the switchshow command. So the first step is to get the WWPN of the HBA ports and LIFs. Members of a zone are identified by their World Wide Port Numbers(WWPN). Now that you are familiar with zoning, lets look at how to create zones on a Brocade FC switch.

This means you will have two zones in each switch as below. Each zone will have one host initiator and one LIF from each storage processor. The recommended configuration for implementing zoning in the fabric shown in Figure 1 is to create two zones in each switch. Zoning defines which host HBAs have access to which SPs thereby isolating and reducing the paths between the host and the LUN. Figure 1: FC SAN MultipathingįC Zoning(or just zoning) segregates and partitions a fibre channel fabric to control the access between the connected devices. The storage device has two Storage Processors and each SP has redundant connections to both FC switches. The servers have two HBA cards and are connected to two different FC switches for redundancy. The figure below shows a redundant multipath storage network with two servers. Redundancy in a storage network is achieved through a technique called multipathing where you establish multiple physical connections between the storage and the host to avoid any single point of failure.įor a fully redundant SAN network, you need to have multiple HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) in the host server that are connected to two different Storage Processors (SP) via two switches. A Storage Area Network or storage network consists of storage devices, switches and server hosts.

Brocade san switch zoning commands