Zone and alias naming guidelines and modifications

Zone and alias names must follow certain guidelines, HPE OneView will modify zone and alias names defined in the zoning policy to ensure they adhere to those guidelines. The following table describes the naming guidelines and the modifications HPE OneView makes to zone and alias names so that they meet the guidelines.

Guideline	Action taken by HPE OneView
Name cannot contain illegal characters (determined by the SAN manager)	Removes illegal characters from name.
Name must be unique	Modifies the name to make it unique if it is not unique. The name is appended with `_#` where `#` is a number, starting at `1`.
Name begins with an illegal initial character (determined by the SAN manager)	Prepends `A_` on invalid alias names, and `Z_` on invalid zone names.
Name cannot be blank	Creates a unique name using a unique variable for the SAN. For example, a blank server profile connection variable would be replaced with the connection id variable.
Name cannot exceed a certain character length	Truncates the name starting with tokens in the name, and then the whole name if it is still too long.