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To control which hosts can access which subsystems, SFSS allows the ability to soft-zone subsystems and hosts. NVMe IP SANs do not require single initiator or single target zoning. Similar to Cisco SmartZoning or Broadcom Peer Zoning, SFSS zones contain groups of host ports and the storage ports they access. The figure below shows four host ports accessing the same two storage ports. As a result, it is logical to put these hosts and storage ports in the same zone. To avoid wasting system resources on both the host and the storage subsystem, the number of storage ports accessible by a host should be minimized.
NVMe IP SANs do not require single initiator or single target zoning. Similar to Cisco SmartZoning or Broadcom Peer Zoning, SFSS zones contain groups of host ports and the storage ports they access. The figure below shows four host ports accessing the same two storage ports. As a result, it is logical to put these hosts and storage ports in the same zone. For more detail on zoning, see the SmartFabric Storage Software User Guide.
To avoid wasting system resources on both the host and the storage subsystem, only zone host interfaces to a limited number of storage ports. Each host interface will access two PowerStore interfaces - one on Node A, and one on Node B.
The high-level steps are as follows:
- Create Zone Group
- Create Zone
- Add Members
- Activate zoning
- Verify
The steps below explain how to create a zone for Endpoints in SAN A. In this example, Zone Z-NVMe-SAN-A is in Zone Group ZG-NVMe-SAN-A in CDC Instance 1.
This example shows ESXi and PowerStore hosts, but the same configuration steps apply to all endpoints, including Linux and PowerMax.
To create a Zone Group: