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.
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For a zoned SAN, Automate Zoning is set to
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For an open SAN, Automate Zoning is set to
Noand cannot be changed.
For more information, see About SAN managers.
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Required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Network administrator
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You have added a SAN Manager
Associating a network with a managed SAN
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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.
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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.
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Confirm your changes, and click Create (if you are creating a network) or OK (if you are editing a network) to apply them.
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Verify the changes by checking the network in the details pane.