When you provision storage, you can set a zoning policy to enable automatic zoning. When
automatic zoning is enabled, IBM Spectrum®
Control can
create zones during storage provisioning to connect a server to a storage system.
Discontinued support: Provisioning is no longer supported in
IBM Spectrum
Control. While the feature might still work in this
release, it's recommended that you use another tool for your provisioning needs, when possible. For
a complete list of discontinued features, see
Discontinued features in IBM Spectrum Control.
When IBM Spectrum
Control creates a provisioning task,
it identifies the best location for the new storage that satisfies the requirements of the service
class. If automatic zoning is enabled, then, during provisioning, existing zones are used if the
server already has connectivity to the storage system. Otherwise, one or more zones are created
between a host initiator port and a controller, node, or module port.
IBM Spectrum
Control provides the support for zone
control and management of Brocade switches and fabrics that are managed by using Brocade Network Advisor, and Cisco switches and fabrics.
The Cisco support includes:
- Standard Cisco zone control capabilities
- Cisco Enhanced Zoning features.
To set or modify the zoning policy, complete the following
steps:
-
In the menu bar, go to , and click Set Zoning Policy.
- Enable or disable automatic zoning:
- Enable automatic zoning to allow IBM Spectrum
Control to
create zones during storage provisioning. The naming convention for
new zones is host_storage-system_suffix-number.
When you enable automatic zoning, you can specify the following options:
- Zone name prefix
- If you specify a zone name prefix, all zones that are automatically
created by IBM Spectrum
Control are
prefixed with a string you specify. This prefix can help you identify
which zones were automatically created, and which were created manually.
- Make changes to the active zone set
- Specify whether changes are made to the active zone set or to a new inactive zone set. If this
check box is selected, one or more new zones are added to the active zone set. If the check box is
cleared, a new inactive zone set is created and the new zone or zones are added to this new inactive
zone set. The new inactive zone set will contain only the new zones.
- Disable automatic zoning if you want IBM Spectrum
Control to use only existing zones. If you disable
automatic zoning, no changes will be made to the zoning for the fabric.
- Click Save.