Fibre Channel zoning

In storage networking, Fibre Channel zoning is the partitioning of a Fibre Channel fabric into smaller subsets to restrict interference, add security, and to simplify management. If a SAN contains several storage devices, each system connected to the SAN should not be allowed to interact with all of them. Zoning applies only to the switched fabric topology (FC-SW), it does not exist in simpler Fibre Channel topologies.
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