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Cascaded FICON fabric merge
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(Optional) Configures long distance settings on selected ports of primary and secondary
fabrics (requires an Extended Fabric license).
NOTE
If the distance between the merged fabrics is 10 km or greater, you must configure the
connection as a long distance connection.
Note that the merge wizard does not enable primary fabric switches for DLS, In-Order Delivery
(IOD), insistent domain ID flag (IDID), and Advanced Performance Tuning (APT).
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In-Order Delivery (IOD) will be enabled on all switches in the secondary fabric.
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Dynamic Load Sharing (DLS) will be enabled on switches in the secondary fabric that are
operating at 8 Gbps or greater and are running Fabric OS 6.3 or later.
NOTE
To enable DLS, all switches in the fabric must be 8 Gbps or faster and running Fabric OS 6.3 or
later.
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Primary fabric switches will not be disturbed for disruptive operations, such as IDID and APT.
Instead, all primary fabric switches will be validated for current routing policies and the same
policies will be enabled on all the secondary fabric switches.
The cascaded FICON fabrics merge wizard performs the following operations to avoid Active
Directory (AD), Access Control List (ACL), and zone database merge conflicts between the two
fabrics:
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Clears Admin Domain, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and zone databases, if they exist, from the
secondary fabric that you select within the wizard.
NOTE
Clearing the ACL database in a large fabric can take a long time; for example, in a 50-switch
fabric, this operation can take from 30 minutes to 1 hour.
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Sets the default zoning configuration on the secondary fabric to match the default zoning
status of the primary fabric.
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Modifies ACL policy on the secondary fabric to match the primary fabric parameters, including
Accept Distribution and FWCP.
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Sets FWCP in strict mode for SCC for the primary fabric.
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Sets FWCP in tolerant mode for the Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) fabric.