Merging two Fabrics

Question

Hi,

I have two standalone 6140M switches with active zonesets on them and I need to ISL these switches.

Here are the steps I am thinking of that will be involved.

1. Change the Domain Id's on the switches so they are unique.

2. renaming the zonesets so they look similar on both the switches.

3. make sure the zone names are unique.

4. ISL the switches and the zonesets will merge automatically.

Please let me know if I am going in the right direction or am I missing something??

Thanks,
Karan

BRuehl · Answer

It looks like you are going in the right direction to me. You may have an issue with a switch trying to be a principle switch and pushing all of its zoning data to the other switch. You may want to add the zoning data from the switch with the higher domain ID to the switch that will become the principal switch in the fabric.

Allen Ward · Answer

Everything looks fine here and you should have no problems with the merging of the zonesets. You have already made sure that there are no duplicate zone names, so there is no problem.

You don't need to worry about the zoneset names. They won't affect the merge.

The only thing you may want to add to your list is verifying that the ports you will use for ISL are enabled and configured to allow E_port connectivity. You should also verify that the ports are not artificially limited to 1GB or something.

When you chose the ports to use, did you pick ports from seperate cards? If not, you should consider it as it will allow you to survive a card replacement without fragmenting the fabric.

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Merging two Fabrics

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