Chapter 3: Configuring Your LibraryConfiguring Fibre Channel I/O Blades208 Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s GuideChannel Zoning Channel zoning, also called port zoning, is an optional feature thatconfigures access to an entire Fibre Channel and all the LUNs on thatchannel for the exclusive use of a host or group of hosts on a singleport. Channel zoning enables you to control access between specifictarget Fibre Channel (FC) ports and initiator channels on an I/O blade inyour library. If you make changes to the channel zoning settings, youmust reboot the I/O blade for the new settings to take effect.Caution: If you change channel zoning after host computers orapplications have already discovered devices, you mustmake sure that device discovery occurs again. Devicediscovery could occur automatically when you reboot thelibrary. Some host computers have plug and play capability,which can discover devices automatically. Host applicationsmight discover devices automatically.1 Log on as an administrator.2 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the Viewmenu, click the name of the physical library.3 Click Setup > Blades > Access > Channel Zoning. The ChannelZoning dialog box appears.4 Click the I/O blade you want to configure to highlight it.The same I/O blade may appear multiple times in the list dependingon the number of hosts assigned to the I/O blade. You only need toselect one instance of the blade to zone the entire blade.
