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There is no single, best recommendation on how to use zoning in your
environment. In general, we can organize the zones as follows:
One initiator and one target per zone
This is not suitable for midrange and large environments. Imagine having to
administer your zones in an environment of 50 servers, each with four HBAs
and two storage subsystems, each with six HBAs and two tape libraries with
eight drives each. It would not be manageable to keep with this zoning
approach.
One initiator and multiple targets per zone
If you still want to stay conservative, but do not want to run into ...