About Smart Zoning
Smart zoning implements hard zoning of large zones with fewer hardware resources than was previously required. The traditional zoning method allows each device in a zone to communicate with every other device in the zone. The administrator is required to manage the individual zones according to the zone configuration guidelines. Smart zoning eliminates the need to create a single initiator to single target zones. By analyzing device-type information in the FCNS, useful combinations can be implemented at the hardware level by the Cisco MDS NX-OS software, and the combinations that are not used are ignored. For example, initiator-target pairs are configured, but not initiator-initiator.
The device type information of each device ...
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