You could easily populate the VSAN that you are migrating your host and storage ports with all of their current zone information by editing the startup-config.txt file from the switch.  In the startup-config file a zone entry will look like this:  zone name SERVER1_HBA1_CX700_A0 vsan 1    member pwwn 21:00:00:0d:29:fa:45:82    member pwwn 50:06:01:60:30:60:2d:76  To create that same zone in VSAN 2 (this is your new consolidated VSAN in this example) just copy those lines into a new text file called newzones.txt and change the VSAN number:  zone name SERVER1_HBA1_CX700_A0 vsan 2     member pwwn 21:00:00:0d:29:fa:45:82     member pwwn 50:06:01:60:30:60:2d:76  Do this for every zone you want to copy to the consolidated VSAN. Then when your text file is complete just copy it to the running config:  switch# copy ftp:newzones.txt running-config  This way you can do all the work before hand and have all the zones created and available for activation once the ports have been moved over the to consolidated VSAN and the WWNs have been registered. Then all you have to do is insert the desired zones into the active zoneset and activate the changes.
Hello,  I have a question about moving ports in a VSAN to another VSAN.   I have a customer with multiple MDS switches that are all ISL'ed together (they did not make 2 seperate fabrics due to single HBA hosts) so it shows as one big fabric.  I know this is not a best practice but i am trying to correct this configuration.  THey have about 12 VSAN's that are connected to about 5 different arrays.  THey do not have IVR so they have been taking one FE port from each SP and putting it into a VSAN.  now with taht many VSAN's they are stretched pretty thin.  I want to consolidate the VSAN's down so that i can get more then one pair of SP ports in any one VSAN to utilize the benefits of powerpath and such.  I am not sure of the steps i would need to do to move stuff from one VSAN to another.   I would think that for every host that i want to move, i would need to power it down and change the VSAN for that port.  THen i would need to add new zones to the VSAN it was moved to?    If a host is dual homed,  could i more one port at a time to the new VSAN's and keep it online?  THanks
Moving connections to different VSAN's