Updating zoning when adding FibreBridge 7600N bridge to a configuration
The zoning must be changed when you are replacing FibreBridge 6500N bridges with FibreBridge 7600N bridge and using both FC ports on the FibreBridge 7600N bridge. Each zone can have no more than four initiator ports.
About this task
FibreBridge 7600N bridges are supported in ONTAP 9.6 and later.
The specific zoning in this task is for ONTAP 9.4 and later.
The zoning changes are required to avoid issues with ONTAP, which requires that no more than four FC initiator ports can have a path to a disk.
After recabling to consolidate the shelves, the existing zoning would result in each disk being reachable by eight FC ports. You must change the zoning to reduce the initiator ports in each zone to four.
The FC switch section of the Fabric-attached MetroCluster Installation and Configuration Guide contains details about the zoning commands.