Tuesday 25 June 2019

Brocade : Zone creation steps

Zone creation:

* First login to the Switch and find out the online WWn’s
* Login into the one switch from the fabric

Switch-01:admin> nodefind 21:00:00:1b:32:0e:0d:db
Remote:
    Type Pid    COS     PortName                NodeName
    N    698400;      3;21:00:00:1b:32:0e:0d:db;20:00:00:1b:32:0e:0d:db;
        FC4s: IPFC FCP
        Fabric Port Name: 20:84:00:05:1e:36:61:10
        Permanent Port Name: 21:00:00:1b:32:0e:0d:db
        Device type: Physical Initiator
        Port Index: 132
        Share Area: Yes
        Device Shared in Other AD: No
        Redirect: No
        Partial: No
    Aliases: HBA1_P1

*Find out the Storage alias names and select the port which we need to do the zoning
*After finding the port details & alias for  Storage and alias for test server then create Zone with those aliases.

Zone Creating:-

""If alias is not created please use below steps to create alias:

alicreate "HBA1_P1","21:00:00:e0:8b:1d:f9:03"  (Creating alias)

alishow HBA1_P1 (To show the alias)    ""


zonecreate  "HBA1_P1_Storage_5A","HBA1_P1;Storage_5A"     (Creating the zone with server and storage aliases)

cfgadd "configswitch1","HBA1_P1_Storage_5A"        (Add  the newly cretaed zone to current configuration)

cfgsave           (Save the configuration)

cfgenable "configswitch1"            (Enable the configuratio)