In Fibre Channel fabric management, the primary difference between hard zoning and soft zoning is whether the enforcement of communication restrictions happens at the hardware level within the switch ASIC or at the software level through the name server. Hard zoning uses the switch hardware, specifically the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, to perform frame-level filtering. When a frame arrives at a switch port, the switch checks the source and destination hardware addresses against the active zone datab....
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