here is a list of FAs on my 1 engine VMAX (you don't see H ports on my Vmax because they are in use by SRDF):   S Y M M E T R I X    F I B R E   D I R E C T O R S    Dir    Port  WWN               ACLX     Volume Set   Pnt to Pnt                                   Enabled  Addressing    FA-7E   0    5000097208222918  Yes      No           Yes    FA-7E   1    5000097208222919  Yes      No           Yes    FA-8E   0    500009720822291C  Yes      No           Yes    FA-8E   1    500009720822291D  Yes      No           Yes    FA-7F   0    5000097208222958  Yes      No           Yes    FA-7F   1    5000097208222959  Yes      No           Yes    FA-8F   0    500009720822295C  Yes      No           Yes    FA-8F   1    500009720822295D  Yes      No           Yes    FA-7G   0    5000097208222998  Yes      No           Yes    FA-7G   1    5000097208222999  Yes      No           Yes    FA-8G   0    500009720822299C  Yes      No           Yes    FA-8G   1    500009720822299D  Yes      No           Yes   what i have done is this. Each switch fabric has even FAs and odd FAs. For example one fabric A i have FAs 7E0 and 8E0, on fabric B i have 7G0 and 8G1. Then on VMAX i create a port group that consists of 4 FAs. When you zone your host, hba1 will be zoned to FA 7E0/8E0 and hba2 will be zoned to FA 7G0/8G1. Take a look at this thread as well  [URL]
I do want to know the zoning best practices for VMAX, like is it minimum  2 FAs should be contained in a zone or even 1FA with 1 initiator is also okay ?  like imagine like i have fabA and fabB with hbaA ,FA1, FA2 connected to FabA and hbaB ,FA3, FA4 connected to FabB. here have to create zoneA and ZoneB like here the basic zoning would be a zoneA with hbaA and FA1 and zoneB with hbaB and FA3 as its members, what is the best practice do we need to have like 2 FAs atleast for VMAX to brocade or any switch zoning?
VMAX zoning best practices