Zoning is a fundamental principle for managing the resources in a storage area network. If you are involved in SAN management, take our quick refresher full of advice and technical tips on how to zone a SAN.
What is the best way to do zoning?
ASK THE EXPERTS :What is the best way to do zoning? Let's say we have 10-20 servers with four HBAs and one HDS9960. Should we zone each HBA ...
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Make the most of zoning
TIP :Plan carefully when implementing zoning in your SAN to maximize efficiency.
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Using hard zoning
ASK THE EXPERTS :When using hard zoning, what is meant by "not overlapping zones"?
Zoning a large-scale SAN
ASK THE EXPERTS :I work in an environment where storage devices greatly outnumber hosts --80+ Sharks, 80+ San Data Gateways for SCSI-attached ...
Zoning switches
ASK THE EXPERTS :I have a question about zoning switches to separate the storage array from the tape library. Is this a recommended ...
Partitioning servers within a SAN
ASK THE EXPERTS :I assume that there is or certainly could be naming convention problems associated with files/datasets. Is the only way to ...
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