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What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is B. Controls and isolates paths in a fabric. D. Can be used to separate different environments. Fibre Channel Zoning serves two primary purposes: isolating paths within the SAN fabric and logically separating different environments such as production and development.
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What are two use cases for Fibre Channel Zoning in a vSphere environment? (Choose two.)
Options
- AIncreases the number of targets presented to an ESXi host.
- BControls and isolates paths in a fabric.
- CControls and isolates paths to an NFS share.
- DCan be used to separate different environments.
How the community answered
(51 responses)- A8% (4)
- B88% (45)
- C4% (2)
Why each option
Fibre Channel Zoning serves two primary purposes: isolating paths within the SAN fabric and logically separating different environments such as production and development.
Zoning restricts visibility in the fabric by limiting which targets an initiator can discover - it reduces, not increases, the number of targets presented to a host.
FC Zoning is the core mechanism for controlling which initiators can see which targets in a Fibre Channel fabric, effectively isolating paths so that only authorized HBAs can communicate with designated storage arrays.
NFS shares are accessed over IP networks using TCP/IP, not Fibre Channel fabric, so FC Zoning has no applicability to NFS path control.
Zoning is commonly used to create logical boundaries between different environments (for example, production and test/dev), preventing ESXi hosts in one environment from accessing LUNs belonging to another.
Concept tested: Fibre Channel Zoning purposes in vSphere SAN
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-storage/GUID-9B5AB58A-7F6B-4C7A-B0D1-2C5C1A0A0B2F.html
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