Storage Networking

HiI would like discuss the following issue :We have 2 HP SAN EVA 8400 ( one at the production site and one at our Disaster Recovery site ) replicating using a fiber channel service from ( 2* FC dark fiber from PROVIDER A )They are linked together  wi...

I have a two MDS 9513 connected via FCIP tunnel. VSAN 100 is in allowed list and tunnel trunks properly.the zonesets show wwns across the links logging into fabric and i am even able to fcping successfully.there are two different storage arrays conne...

Hello,I have a SAN network composed of few separate PODs. Each POD is divided into SAN-A and SAN-B. Most of those PODs are Brocade switches (FOS 6.1). There are also few Nexus 5520s. Now, we have built new core infrastructure with Nexus 5548UPs and m...

            I am trying to find out the port groups for an 8Gbps module that we are installing in a MDS9500.  DS-x9224-96K9      

I have an IBM SVC generating alerts as follows:Duplicate fibre channel frame detected - 0x500507680110c2ff received duplicate frame OX_ID 0x4922 from 0x2000c2a4a0ff005eThe SVC is connected to 8Gb ports on MDS9513 DS-X9224-96K9 modules. The port the S...

Hi there! I'm preparing for upgrade SAN-OS 3.2(2c) to 4.1(1c), but can't find any guide to the procedure. All I've found is that I need to upgrade to 3.3(x) first, then to 4.1(1c), but no information on how to do a particular upgrade. Please help fin...

Hello Cisco,I have seen a few cases with what appear to be bogus counter increments on multiple ports for example as follows:fc2/15 is up    Port description is VMAX 601194-FA08F1    Hardware is Fibre Channel, SFP is short wave laser w/o OFC (SN)    ...

Hi all,I'm trying to configure lun-based zoning on MDS 9124 Switch but i'm doing something wrong. If there is someone with experience about this any advice can be handle. I looked everywhere to find a configuration guide or example but didn't find an...

Hello,On Nexus, is-it possible to configurate Read-Only zoning ? if yes, how ?On MDS, we have the attribute "read-only"A9124-2# config tEnter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.A9124-2(config)# zone name Z_sresx1_HBA1_CX340_SPB_P0...

Hello,Could you tell me if  Storage Services license (N55-8P-SSK9) required for using native FC ports on N55-M8P8FP (non-UP ports module - 8 ports 1/10G + 8 ports 8/4/2/1G FC) ?thank you

Hello,could anybody provide me some more details about Cisco TrustSec Fibre Channel Link Encryption? We are thinking to invest in this feature. Can I really use all 32 FC Ports @ 8Gbit wire speed on the 3Gen Cards? Have somebody used this feature alr...

I have a storage port connection for an IBM XIV storage subsystem that is showing up in Fabric Manager as a host and not storage.  Is there a way to change this so the port will show up as a target and not an initiator?

I am getting this error message when  I try to connect to the fabic. I get the same message when I launch the SAN client or when I  try to add the device in web console. I am not sure what is causing this problem. Please help.

I have a question for folks. I'm getting the following error N5k-1(config)# interface san-port-channel 20 N5k-1(config-if)# sw mode ferror: incompatible port mode config type (0x40290027) I tried to set "F" because f1/43, f1/44 are facing to Storage ...

CAn anybody advise how to configure MDS switch to get CLI logons/Actions logged on external syslog server.I have tried logging server x.x.x.x facility user and logging server x.x.x.x facility authpriv without success.Please advise if there is a confi...