What is zoning and masking?

LUN masking takes place at either the host bus adapter (HBA) or storage controller, and restricts the hosts’ ability to access specific LUNs. LUN zoning generally takes place on storage-area network (SAN) switches and compartmentalises the SAN fabric, grouping hosts and storage arrays into zones.

How do you zoning a SAN switch?

Steps Of Zoning in Brocade SAN Switch

1. Check Connectivity of HBA Port To Fabric.
2. Create FC Alias Name For HBA Port WWPN and Storage Array Port WWPN.
3. Create a ZONE and add alias members.
4. Add the zone to active configuration zone.
5. Save the active configuration zone.
6. Enable active configuration zone.

What’s the difference between zoning and masking in San?

Zoning and masking terms are often confused by those who just started working with SAN. But it takes 5 minutes googling to understand that the main difference is that zoning is configured on a SAN switch on a port basis (or WWN) and masking is a storage feature with LUN granularity. All modern hardware supports zoning and masking.

Can you use zoning and LUN Masking at the same time?

It is possible to use zoning and LUN masking at the same time but it’s not a requirement. Neither one of these are used with NAS storage and zoning is only used with fibre channel storage. LUN masking can be used with iSCSI storage and fibre channel storage.

How does San zoning work on a computer?

SAN zoning is the process of separating devices\\hosts and storage by creating zones where only certain devices can communicate with certain storage resources that are in the same zone. It is also used to keep hosts from communicating with each other.

How to find a zone in San Bernardino County?

For zone searching utilizing an Address, please access the San Bernardino County LUSD Zoning Address Look-up map . For zone searching utilizing an APN, please access the San Bernardino County LUSD Zoning APN Look-up map .