how to zone between different fabrics

[anton.mssm]

hi, I am fairly new to cisco fabric and I have a question of how to zone a device thats in two different fabrics.

I know that I have two fabrics, one fabric consists of 4 swiches and call it SAN-A

Another fabric consists of 4 switches and call it SAN-B.

SAN-A has a tape drive connected to Switch-01-SAN-A

SAN-B has a netapp filer connected to Switch-01-SAN-B

When I look at layout on fabric manager I can only see SANA or SANB, but they arent merged (and I think it was created this way on purpose).

Is there a way that I can get my tape drive fron SAN-A to be zoned to my Netapp filer in SAN-B?

Thank you

[dynamoxxx · Accepted solution]

move available tape resources from SAN-A to SAN-B. In order to use IVR you would need to establish physical connectivity between SAN-A and SAN-B and you don't want to do that because they are separate for a reason (HA).