Enhanced Zoning: Exploring Its Advantages

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Enhanced zoning is a feature in Cisco MDS switches that provides additional capabilities and flexibility to the traditional zoning functionality. It offers features such as zone sets, which are collections of zones that can be activated or deactivated together, and also supports advanced zoning options such as smart zoning and port-based zoning. Let's review the given statements and see which two are true:

A. When you begin a session, the switch locks the entire fabric to implement the change. This statement is false. Enhanced zoning uses a distributed lock management system that allows multiple administrators to work on different parts of the fabric simultaneously without causing conflicts or disruption to the fabric.

B. References to the zone are used by the zone sets as required after you define the zone. This statement is true. When you define a zone in enhanced zoning, you can add it to a zone set. The zone set references the zone and can activate or deactivate it as needed. This allows for more flexibility in managing the zoning configuration.

C. It retrieves the activation results and the nature of the problem of the local switch only. This statement is false. Enhanced zoning provides a comprehensive view of the fabric's configuration and status, including all switches, zones, and zone sets. It can detect and report errors and inconsistencies across the entire fabric, not just the local switch.

D. It does not enforce the default zone setting throughout the fabric. This statement is true. Enhanced zoning does not automatically enforce the default zone setting, which allows traffic to flow between any devices that are not explicitly zoned. However, you can configure enhanced zoning to enforce default zoning if desired.

E. It performs all configurations with multiple configuration sessions. This statement is false. Enhanced zoning allows you to perform all configuration changes in a single session, which reduces the likelihood of errors and simplifies the management process.

Therefore, the two statements that are true about enhanced zoning are:

• References to the zone are used by the zone sets as required after you define the zone.
• It does not enforce the default zone setting throughout the fabric.