Hi, I would like to know how many maximum FC ports can one have on a Nexus 5548 (N5K-C5548UP) without any expansion module? I have the FC_FEATURES_PKG license installed.
Hello,we have 4 different san fabrics with mds switches. In every fabric, we have installed a additional nexus 5596 with a san dcnm license. The mds switches has not a fabric manager license. We installed the dcnm for the san administration and we ca...
Hi experts, Does anybody know what the max distance is for FCoE between datacenters?Is there a difference between F1 and F2 linecards, considering this distance?Thanks!
Question about NPV topologies. Is this supported?NPV--->NPV--->Core where the devices in the mix areUCS--->n5548--->N7KI know it is supported and works if the N5K is not in NPV mode but want to see if I can do with the N5K in NPV mode.Thanks
Hi to all!I need a switch with at least 80 fibre channel interfaces. I analyzed the N5K-5596 and it seems that he can meet my needs. My question is: can I use all the interfaces of this switch as FC?Best Regards!
I am merging pur Dev switch with our Prod switch. Each have very similar zonesets in vsan2. They do have uniques zones but the zoneset name is the same.I want to make sure that my settings are correct so when I ISL the swithces that the zones from De...
Hi,We are configuring our MDS switches for new storage and there are a couple of options. I am not sure which is the best way to go.We have 6 x 9124's. Our new storage has plenty of ports. Each of the 6 x 9124's will be connected to 2 ports on the...
Hello - I need some help with fine tuning FCIP between MDS switch to MDS switch.We have 2 x cisco MDS 9222i ("4x1GE IPS, 18x1/2/4Gbps FC/Sup2") one at production other at DR.Both datacentres are connected with dedicated point-to-point with 10 Gbps f...
Hi,We have two new MDS 9148 switch for our DC. I have little knowlege about cisco MDS Swtiches. I am planning for 1+1 redundancy for this MDS switches.Connectivity : ____________MDS SW01 __________Storage Server ----| ...
I am new to storage networking and have been tasked with updating the configurations of two Cisco MDS 9124s for FC connectivity to four new Cisco UCS blade servers. Unfortunately, I have never worked on the MDS 9000 platforms and am unsure on how to...
HelloWe have MDS 9124 switches at a remote site, and we are seeing some bandwidth throttling and a little extra latency due to buffer credit exhaustion. They have only 16 credits RX at the R2 side of an SRDF/S link to our DR site. The 9153's on the p...
I need to configure an MDS 9222i to do EhterChannel for redundant links to a Cisco 6500. I have tried to configure channel-group on the GE interface and I get an error (see below)b0maumigrjax(config-if)# channel-group 1command failed: Member list of ...
I'm standing up an MDS 9124DS switch and am wanting to setup some alias's for the zones. Device Manager is running, but I dont really see where to create alia's for zones. the switch is not plugged into the fabric. I attempted to install FM and re...
Hello,I have connected one of 4 NIC's on an ESX Hypervisor 5 Server to the nexus 2000 above.The Nic reports that it is down but when I connect the nic to another switch it works fine.A laptop connected to the nexus works fine.I'd appreciate it if som...
