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LUN masking and zoning

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LUN masking and zoning

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- [Rick] In this video, we'll learn how Fiber Channel zoning and LUN Masking work and how they can be used to hide certain LUNs or to segment the Fiber Channel switch fabric. So in our diagram here, we see two different ESXi hosts that are connected to the same Fiber Channel switch. Call the first host our Dev ESXi Host. So this is an ESXi host that's specifically used by our development team. And then we've got a second ESXi host. We'll call that one the production or Prod ESXi Host used by our production team. And so we have one ESXi host that is for production purposes that should have access to the production data. And the dev team, well, the Dev ESXi Host should not be able to access this particular storage array. So maybe on the backend there's another storage array connected here that the dev team uses. We'll call this storage array two. I want the dev team to have access to storage array two. But I don't want them to…

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