How to do zoning in Cisco MDS SAN switches

Pre-requisites to do zoning in Cisco Fabric

• Collect the VSAN ID details and identify VSAN
• Collect active zoneset in VSAN. (sh zoneset active| inc zoneset)
• Collect WWPN details of the host.
• Collect WWPN or alias names of storage ports to zone
• Collect fcalias details if you use fcalias database

Take a backup of the existing configuration

Log in to the management host where you want to keep the configuration backup.

ssh admin@Switch_IP/switch_name 'copy run start'
ssh admin@Switch_IP/switch_name 'show flogi database' > ssw01_flogi_da_21032021
ssh admin@Switch_IP/switch_name 'show device-alias database' > ssw01_device_da_21032021
ssh admin@Switch_IP/switch_name 'show dpvm database' > ssw01_dpvm_da_21032021
ssh admin@Switch_IP/switch_name 'show fcalias' > ssw01_fcalias_21032021
ssh admin@Switch_IP/switch_name 'show running-config’> ssw01_run_21032021

Zoning

configure terminal
device-alias database
device-alias name HOST_NAME pwwn 21:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
exit
device-alias commit


configure terminal
zone name ZONE_NAME vsan VSAN_ID
member fcalias STORAGE_PORT_FCALIAS
member device-alias HOST_NAME
show zone pending-diff


zoneset name ZONESET_NAME vsan VSAN_ID
member ZONE_NAME
zoneset activate name ZONESET_NAME vsan VSAN_ID
show zone pending-diff
zone commit vsan VSAN_ID
show zone pending-diff
exit
copy running-config startup-config

Verify Zoning

show zone member pwwn HOST_WWPN

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