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Today, I would like to continue on the topic of Hardware zoning.
Hardware zoning is demonstrated in Figure b below. Another way to think of hardware zoning is as an array of connectors, as shown in this example.
Figure b. Hardware zoning
Device A can only use connection A to access storage device A in Figure b. Through connection B, Device B can only access Storage Device B.
Switch hardware, usually at the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) level, ensures that no data is passed between illegal zone members in a hardware-enforced zone.
Devices, on the other hand, can transport data between ports in the same zone. As a result, rigid zoning offers the highest level of protection. The switch hardware determines the availability of hardware-enforced zoning and the methods for creating hardware-enforced zones.
One drawback of hardware zoning is that devices must be attached to a specific port, and if the device is linked to a different port, the entire zoning configuration becomes ineffective. The usage of software zoning is likely to simplify your setting in circumstances when device connections are not permanent.
Hardware zoning has the benefit of being able to be put into a routing engine via filtering. As a result, this style of zoning has little impact on the routing process' performance.
In a hardware zone, the designer can include as many unused ports as possible. As a result, if one port fails, such as due to a faulty gigabit interface converter (GBIC) or transceiver, the connection can be relocated to another port in the same zone.
As a result, there is no need to alter the zone.
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