Great video Paresh! I got a little confused at 1:27 in the video where it says “path among initiators and targets is blocked”. Am I correct in thinking that: initiator to initiator paths are blocked and target to target paths are blocked but initiator to target paths are not blocked?
Smart zoning + all devices in single zone will do the same. Unless there is a limitation from switch side Making all targets visible to all the hosts is risky. Between in our datacenters we use scripts to manage zoning more efficiently.
Auto Zone follows 1:1 zoning and has ACLs to prevent init to init and target to target traffic. All inits and targets in a single zone does not. Smart Zoning has inherent ACLs to prevent Init to init or target to target traffic all in a single zone. A good option for what you are talking about. Smart Zones can be separated by Target device or cluster . This significantly reduces the work involved in managing but not the risk of Auto Zones.
@@kiwijonnyboy Creating smaller zones with {single_initiator:single_target}, and that each host will be zoned with every available target as mentioned 1:1 way is same smart zone with all devices in same zone. Result is same. Every initiator can access every target available on switch. Since initiator to initiator communication makes no sense, smart zoning eliminates the communication and prevents ACL creation on switch. And number of ACLs created must be same for smart zone and auto zone if what both features claim.
Smart-Zoning still leaves several manual tasks that most customers would rather not deal with (namely, updating zoneset, activating zoneset, saving config, this is still a manual process. Autozone automates all of these)
Great video Paresh! I got a little confused at 1:27 in the video where it says “path among initiators and targets is blocked”. Am I correct in thinking that: initiator to initiator paths are blocked and target to target paths are blocked but initiator to target paths are not blocked?
Hi- yes, that is correct.
that's a great explanation and does cisco MDS 9148s switch support Auto zoning?
Hi there, we'd love to help! Please refer to the following link: cs.co/6051KgLcU. Let us know if this helps!
@@CiscoSystems got it. thank you so much.
Smart zoning + all devices in single zone will do the same. Unless there is a limitation from switch side
Making all targets visible to all the hosts is risky.
Between in our datacenters we use scripts to manage zoning more efficiently.
Auto Zone follows 1:1 zoning and has ACLs to prevent init to init and target to target traffic. All inits and targets in a single zone does not. Smart Zoning has inherent ACLs to prevent Init to init or target to target traffic all in a single zone. A good option for what you are talking about. Smart Zones can be separated by Target device or cluster . This significantly reduces the work involved in managing but not the risk of Auto Zones.
@@kiwijonnyboy Creating smaller zones with {single_initiator:single_target}, and that each host will be zoned with every available target as mentioned 1:1 way is same smart zone with all devices in same zone. Result is same. Every initiator can access every target available on switch. Since initiator to initiator communication makes no sense, smart zoning eliminates the communication and prevents ACL creation on switch. And number of ACLs created must be same for smart zone and auto zone if what both features claim.
Smart-Zoning still leaves several manual tasks that most customers would rather not deal with (namely, updating zoneset, activating zoneset, saving config, this is still a manual process. Autozone automates all of these)
Great video, thanks :)