Cisco Nexus 5000 Series - Zone and Zone Set Analysis

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring and Managing Zones
Zone and Zone Set Analysis
Note A merge failure occurs when a switch supports more than 2000 zones per VSAN but its neighbor does
not. Also, zone set activation can fail if the switch has more than 2000 zones per VSAN and not all
switches in the fabric support more than 2000 zones per VSAN.
To delete zones and compact the zone database for a VSAN, perform this task:
Zone and Zone Set Analysis
To better manage the zones and zone sets on your switch, you can display zone and zone set information
using the show zone analysis command.
The following example shows how to display full zoning analysis:
switch# show zone analysis vsan 1
The following example shows how to display active zoning analysis:
switch# show zone analysis active vsan 1
See the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Command Reference for the description of the information
displayed in the command output.
Default Settings
Table 1-4 lists the default settings for basic zone parameters.
Command Purpose
Step 1
switch# configuration terminal
switch(config)#
Enters configuration mode.
Step 2
switch(config)# no zone name zone-name vsan
vsan-id
Deletes a zone to reduce the number of zones
to 2000 or fewer.
Step 3
switch(config)# zone compact vsan vsan-id
Compacts the zone database for the specified
VSAN to recover the zone ID released when
a zone was deleted.
Table 1-4 Default Basic Zone Parameters
Parameters Default
Default zone policy Denied to all members.
Full zone set distribute The full zone set(s) is not distributed.
Enhanced zoning Disabled.