Storage Networking

I noticed that the performance graphs created in Cisco DCNM are not complete. They have missing pieces (holes) in the graph lines. I can only think that the performance data is not collected successfully by the management tool and therefore it cannot...

Hello folks,i am preparing to upgrade my MDS 9513 (rev 2) and MDS 9222i to 5.2.6a code. Looking at the release notes for 5.2.x i see that i will first need to upgrade to 5.0.x and then to 5.2.x. Another caveat that i see is that we currently use IVR ...

Hi all,I see the following in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family I/O Accelerator Configuration GuideLimitations and Restrictions:IOA clustering framework uses IP connectivity for its internal operation. In Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1), if an IOA cluster becomes...

Hi experts,I have an issue.I tried configure nexus 5010 via console. But I just can not. I use putty, but it is nothing to be seen on console. I can not see how it is booted. I've changed the speed but also not helped.Status and power leds are green....

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