SB2A-16A Qlogic Corporation, SB2A-16A Datasheet - Page 46

• Manufacturer Part Number: SB2A-16A
• Description: Development Tools, SANbox 16-port Switch
• Manufacturer: Qlogic Corporation

3 – Planning
Fabric Management
3.4.3
Virtual Private Fabric Hard Zones
3.5
Fabric Management
3-10
Virtual Private Fabric (VPF) zoning divides the fabric for purposes of controlling
discovery and both inbound and outbound traffic. This type of zoning is useful for
providing security and reserving paths between devices to guarantee bandwidth.
VPF zoning is a type of hard zoning that is hardware enforced. Members can only
transmit to and receive from members of the same VPF zone. The VPF zone
boundary is secure against both inbound and outbound traffic. The following rules
apply to VPF zones:
The SANbox Manager application and CLI execute on a management workstation
that provides for the configuration, control, maintenance of the fabric. Supported
platforms include Windows, Windows NT, Solaris, and Linux. The SANbox
Manager application can manage multiple fabrics. Consider how many fabrics will
be managed, how many management workstations are needed, and whether the
fabrics will be managed with the CLI or SANbox Manager.
A switch supports a combined maximum of 19 logins reserved as follows:
VPF zones that include members from multiple switches must include the
ports of the inter-switch links.
VPF zones cannot overlap; that is, a port can be a member of only one VPF
zone.
VPF zone boundaries supersede both soft and ACL zone boundaries.
Membership can be defined only by domain ID and port ID.
VPF zoning supports all port modes.
4 sessions for internal applications such as management server and SNMP
15 sessions for SANbox Manager inband and out-of-band logins,
Application Programming Interface (API) inband and out-of-band logins and
Telnet logins. Of these 15, there can be a combined maximum of 10 SANbox
Manager and API logins. Additional logins will be refused.
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