Storage Networking

Hi,We have MDS9222i in our data center. There are two SAN in the environment - IBM & Brocade. IBM SAN connectivity between DC & DR are through dark fiber now. This is true for SUN storage networking as well. Now we want to connect both IBM & SUN stor...

What is the best method to migrate a seed switch from an older model to a newer one? Currently I have a 9124 as my seed switch and an EOL 9216A as the second hop in my fabric. I have new 9148s to replace both of them. Ideally I want the new switches ...

Was "channel group auto" command removed from MDS running NX-OS or it is part of some feature? mds9222i(config-if)# channel-group ?  <1-256>  Specify a port-channel numbermds9222i(config-if)# channel-groupmds9222i(config-if)# channel-group autocomman...

All, I have six Dell Equallogic SANs connected to two Cisco 3750X (Stacked) in a redundant fashion. I have enabled Jumbo Frames (9000) and I configured a Port-Channel connecting back to the Distribution Layer. Keep in mind, our SAN and Server traffic...

Hi ...I have two switches Nexus 5010 with NX_OS 4.2.1 conected to Brocade 5000 using NPV (and NPIV) features.Now we have two new switches Brocade 5300 and we need to verify the compatibility of the Cisco Nexus NX_OS with the Brocade firmware.I can't ...

Hello - What is the difference between PWWN and NWWN? Do MDS's only recognize PWWN? If so, how do I know I got the right WWN in the zone?

We are installing DCNM to configure our new 7K switches and we can log in but after a period of about 5 minutes the client goes to a pink screen and states "Connectivity Lost to Server".  The server is installed on RedHat Linux.I have looked @ the fi...

Trying to create a custom RBAC role for Nexus 5500 SAN Admin. What role permission is required to have the ability to create device-aliases? The default san-admin role doesn't allow it so I created a custom role but can't figure it out.

This is somewhat of a sanity-check message, since I know the device in question supports the customer connectivity requirements.The customer will be deploying a new Nexus 5500/2200 fabric in the data center, and currently has Brocade Fibre-Channel sw...

I got a new challenge thrown my way this morning and am trying to figure out the best way to get some things accomplished.  Someone previously setup the 5548 but it doesn't seem to be working as expected.  The 5548 is directly connected to a Netapp s...

Hi I recently upgraded MDS 9134 from 5.0.4 to 5.2.6a and when I try to acces via web browser I get this error403 Forbidden The requested URL '/' resolves to a file which is marked executable but is not a CGI file; retrieving it is forbidden. When I w...

Is the LSI 9200-8e SAS HBA supported on the Cisco UCS C-Series M3 rack-mount servers e.g. C220?The technical documentation does not include it as an option. Neither can I find it in the Interoperability matrix. Regards, Arthur

                   Does anyone know where to find a table that would indciate what the max acceptable DB loss would be between two 9148 switches utilizing                    DS-SFP-FC8 GLW over 9 Micron cable.It seems the SFP product data sheets do n...