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# Associate a network with a managed SAN

When you associate a network with a discovered SAN, the SAN becomes managed. Each managed SAN has a zoning policy that defines how automated zoning will be performed on the SAN. See About SANs for more information.

In order to associate a network with a SAN, they must both use the same protocol (FC or FCoE). If the supported protocols of a SAN are not all discoverable on the SAN manager, you can manually edit the SAN to add them.

Automatic zoning occurs as well as end-to-end connectivity verification. Automatic zoning connects a server profile on this network to its storage.

- For a zoned SAN, Automate Zoning is set to `Yes` by default.

- For an open SAN, Automate Zoning is set to `No` and cannot be changed.

For more information, see About SAN managers.

Prerequisites

- Required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Network administrator

- You have added a SAN Manager

Associating a network with a managed SAN

1. Create or edit a network.

   - The network Type must be `Fibre Channel over Ethernet` or `Fibre Channel`.

   - The Fabric type for the network must be `Fabric attach`.

   | NOTE: If you have a hybrid SAN, you might have to change the SAN type for it to show up as an option. For example, if you specify a Fibre Channel over Ethernet network and the hybrid SAN is detected as a Fibre Channel type, you will have to edit the SAN for the SAN to be available to associate to the Fibre Channel network.

2. Select a managed SAN from Associate with SAN. See Create or Edit a network screen details for more information.

   | NOTE: If you are editing the network and change the association to a different managed SAN, you must confirm the change.

3. Confirm your changes, and click Create (if you are creating a network) or OK (if you are editing a network) to apply them.

4. Verify the changes by checking the network in the details pane.

See also

- Networks

- SAN Managers

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