Do you know how to zone a Cisco MDS? Personally I started with SAN Switches from Brocade. Maybe some of you know the Java GUI. Nothing wrong with this, but we all know there are better things than Java 😉

So let’s start on Cisco MDS CLI:

• show zoneset active or show zoneset active vsan [your vsan]

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• clone active zoneset and edit the new one
• create zone
• add members
• add zone to zoneset
• save

#show zoneset
show zoneset active vsan 5

#enter configuration mode
configure terminal
#clone zoneset
zoneset clone prod_2016-05-24_1500 prod_2016-05-27_1600 vsan 5

#mark active
zoneset name prod_2016-05-27_1600 vsan 5

#create zone
zone name V5K_TSM04-DISK-A vsan 5
#add Members
member device-alias v5k-c0p1
member device-alias v5k-c1p1
member device-alias TSM04-DISK-A

#mark active
zoneset name prod_2016-05-27_1600 vsan 5
#add zone into zoneset 
member V5K_TSM04-DISK-A


#check if new zone available 
show zoneset name prod_2016-05-27_1600 vsan 5

#activate
zoneset activate name prod_2016-05-27_1600 vsan 5
#check
show zoneset active vsan 5

#save
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