• When two fabrics are connected, they attempt to merge zone configurations
• Conflicting zoning configuration can result in fabric segmentation:
– Configuration mismatch – Content mismatch – Type mismatch
With zoning, we know that we have different options. We have to ensure that our zones are configured correctly. When we try to merge 2 fabrics, there is no guarantee that our fabrics will merge because it will check the zone configurations between the 2 fabrics.
We can only have one active zoneset in one fabric.
So if we merge the fabrics that means our zone configuration has to merge. When we do a merge we have to do zoneset passing to ensure there is only one active zone database in the fabric.