Storage Networking

I am starting to prepare for the CCIE storeage lab.  Does anyone have a good resource for rack rentals or a blueprint for purchansing a lab?  Thanks

Looking to understand what port our DCNM server is running on. I'm led to believe its not 8080 or 80 which are the defaults. Is there a way of me seeing what port it is using inorder for me to point a browser to it ?Thanks

Hi, Can anyone tell me how much time it takes for a MDS switch to discard frames residing in a incomming/outgoing buffer queue to prevent congestion?

Hi,is it possible to ransfer the storage licence from one Nexus to an other ? this in case we want to use a spare to replace the defect one ?thank youjean

Hello All,I am experiencing a problem while trying to create port-channel interface. The interface did not come up. If i look at the show interface port-channel , c5548p-3# show interface port-channel 1port-channel1 is down (BPDUGuard errDisable)  Ha...

Hi guysAnyone knows the equivalent command in Cisco 9124 SAN Switch of Brocade's spinFab port test feature?

I am involved in a project that involves merging two SAN fabrics together.  Each fabric was managed differently, so I have some devices on my SAN that are configured with fcaliases.We have decided that the preferred configuration is to use device ali...

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,Any one had an experience of istalling DCNM on Hyper V machine, is it supported,Thanks,

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

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...