Making your identity pools meaningful

Although not a requirement, it is beneficial to implement some naming hierarchy when creating MAC, WWNN, and WWPN identity pool addresses. This naming hierarchy could be very helpful in troubleshooting scenarios such as network traces and SAN zoning. We will take an example of a MAC pool to implement a simple naming hierarchy. Using these guidelines, you can create the naming hierarchy for any pool.

Cisco MAC pools have the 00:25:B5:XX:XX:XX format, where 00:25:B5 is the Cisco organizational identifier. Now, we have the other six hexadecimal numbers in which we can implement the naming convention.

In our example, we will use the following convention. You can always come up with other suitable guidelines according to your environment:

• Use one hexadecimal number to represent your site or location

• Use one hexadecimal number to represent the cabinet where the chassis is located

• Use one hexadecimal number to represent the primary FI

• Use one hexadecimal number to...