Fabric Zoning question for ESX VMFS Luns

cbrande99 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:13:21 GMT

Netapp and Vmware recommended 'single intiator multiple strogare target ' zones. Can some make it clear for me.

Today the way I do my Fabric zoning is I first create Alias for the ESX intiator as well as alias for each storage target. Then I create a zone with the all 3 of those alias inside. Is this correct or should I seperate each target to a seperate zone

So for example (This today for 6 esx servers with a fas3020 cluster )

Aliases:

filer1_fc0a:

1,0 50:0a:09:80:86:d8:0a:fe

filer2_fc0a:

1,4 50:0a:09:80:86:d8:0a:fe

esxvmvi01:

1,8 20:01:00:1b:32:aa:17:f3

esxvmvi02:

1,9 20:01:00:1b:32:aa:d8:f0

esxvmvi03:

1,10 20:01:00:1b:32:ab:52:0e

esxvmvi04:

1,11 20:01:00:1b:32:ab:b8:15

esxvmvi05:

1,16 20:01:00:1b:32:aa:ea:f2

esxvmvi06:

1,17 20:01:00:1b:32:ab:4f:16

Zones:

zone_esxvmvi01:

filer1_fc0a filer2_fc0a

eesxvmvi01

zone_esxvmvi02:

filer1_fc0a filer2_fc0a

esxvmvi02

zone_esxvmvi03:

filer1_fc0a filer12_fc0a

esxvmvi03

zone_esxvmvi04:

esxvmvi04 filer1_fc0a

filer2_fc0a

zone_esxvmvi05:

esxvmvi05 filer1_fc0a

filer2_fc0a

zone_esxvmvi06:

esxvmvi06 filer1_fc0a

filer2_fc0a

Re: Fabric Zoning question for ESX VMFS Luns

radek_kubka — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:50:36 GMT

Hi and welcome to the Communities!

Netapp and Vmware recommended 'single intiator multiple strogare target ' zones. Can some make it clear for me.

It meant to prohibit host to host visibility over FC fabric, whilst allowing each host (initiator) access to all necessary storage resources (targets).

Looking at your example I'd say you have just applied this rule.

Regards,

Radek

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