It's overkill. Having too many zones will increase network traffic and slow down your ZDCs. I suggest reviewing the Admin and Advanced Admin guide. There are some pretty good nuggets in there. Joe _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Boggan Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:19 PM To: thin list Subject: [THIN] Dell Blades and Seperate Zones We are in the process of building up a new environment that has the potential to grow rather large. We are using Dell Blades for our Citrix servers...starting with one chassis and adding up 6-10 more chassis by the next quarter. We are working on the design of the environment and we came up with a question. To cut down on network traffic, would it be feasible to create a zone from each blade center so that communication back to the datastore from one server in each chassis is the only "network" traffic. Everything else should stay within the chassis's themselves, correct? Does this make any sense or is it overkill? Thanks, Michael Boggan