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Brochure Cisco public Make Your Storage Networks Self-Provisioning By automating zoning using Cisco Autozone switch# autozone Cisco MDS 9132T Introduction In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) and social networking, agility is one of the key requirements for business success. Critical applications must be flexible and adaptable to respond to changing requests without delays. To help you achieve these goals within your organization, Cisco offers an innovative approach to reduce the time required to assign or change storage allocation to applications over a Fibre Channel fabric. Today, this is a two-step process (both required, in no particular order): • Zoning: Enables the path between servers (or initiators) and storage arrays (or targets) over a Fibre Channel fabric • LUN masking: Assigns a storage LUN to an initiator The Cisco® Autozone feature eliminates the zoning configuration tasks on Cisco MDS 9000 Switches. Once Autozone is enabled by a single command, any new devices added to the Fibre Channel fabric are automatically zoned, without any human intervention. You do not require any zoning expertise to use Autozone. Due to its automated nature, it also eliminates any potential human errors associated with manual zoning configuration. The simple but powerful approach of Autozone helps bring agility to your business. What is Autozone? Autozone eliminates manual zoning configuration for selective use cases. Today, a user manually creates zones, adds initiators and targets to the zones, and adds each zone to a zoneset. Autozone replaces these steps by a single command. The Cisco MDS 9000 32-Gbps fabric switches automatically detect an end-device type as an initiator or a target. All enddevices are zoned automatically, following the best-practices scheme of single-initiator-single-target zoning. Autozone needs to be invoked only once. Any new devices are automatically detected as initiators or targets and zoned appropriately. You do not have to access the switch to modify the zoning configuration when a new or modified storage assignment is required. The final configuration made by Autozone is the same as that obtained by a manual-zoning configuration. An advanced user can choose to refine the zoning further. The highlights of Autozone are described below: • Autozone support is available on MDS 9132T, MDS 9148T and MDS 9396T from Cisco NX-OS 8.3(1) onwards © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Benefits • Devices are automatically zoned when they log into Cisco® MDS • No zoning expertise required • Automated zoning eliminates human errors • Reduced effort and time in provisioning storage networks • Rapid deployments for single-switch

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Brochure Cisco public • Autozone is supported when the switch on which it is used is the only switch in the fabric • Autozone is different from default zoning. In default zoning, initiator-to-initiator and target-to-target paths are also permitted. Autozone creates only single-initiator-single-target zones, to optimally utilize hardware resources • Initially, Autozone is supported in VSAN 1 In phase 1, Autozone can help in the use cases described below. Autozone use cases Autozone can be used by Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) to simplify the deployment of a single-switch SAN. Large...

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