Cisco Nexus 5000 Series - Changing from Basic Zoning to Enhanced Zoning

Enhanced Zoning AdvantagesEnhanced ZoningBasic Zoning
Enhanced error reporting eases the
troubleshooting process
Retrieves the activation results and
the nature of the problem from
each remote switch.
To retrieve the results of the
activation per switch basis, the
managing switch provides a
combined status about the
activation. It does not identify the
failure switch.
Distribution of zone sets without
activation avoids hardware changes
for hard zoning in the switches.
Implements changes to the zoning
database and distributes it without
reactivation.
To distribute the zoning database,
you must reactivate the same zone
set. The reactivation may affect
hardware changes for hard zoning
on the local switch and on remote
switches.
Unique vendor type.Provides a vendor ID along with a
vendor-specific type value to
uniquely identify a member type.
The Cisco-specific zone member
types (symbolic node name, and
other types) may be used by other
non-Cisco switches. During a
merge, the Cisco-specific types can
be misunderstood by the non-Cisco
switches.
The fWWN-based member type is
standardized.
Supports fWWN-based
membership in the standard interop
mode (interop mode 1).
The fWWN-based zone
membership is only supported in
Cisco interop mode.
Changing from Basic Zoning to Enhanced Zoning
You can change to the enhanced zoning mode from the basic mode.
Step 1
Verify that all switches in the fabric can operate in the enhanced mode.
Step 2
If one or more switches cannot operate in the enhanced mode, then your request to move to enhanced mode is rejected.
Step 3
Set the operation mode to enhanced zoning mode.
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series NX-OS SAN Switching Configuration Guide, Release 5.2(1)N1(1)
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Configuring and Managing Zones
Enhanced Zoning