Storage Networking

I have a SAN topology that consists of a Cisco UCS 6140XP fabric interconnect that is connected to a MDS 9148.  The 6140XP is part of a UCS blade chassis in which the hosts on the UCS are connected through to our SAN Fabric.  In Fabric Manager under ...

Dear All,                   I have some quaries about the San switch -DS-C9148D-4G48P-K9 and DS-C9148D-8G48P-K9.We need the cable specification for the connectivity between San switch and  servers and tape library and SAN to switch. waiting for your ...

I had a question regarding the statement that on a single MDS 9148 for example, only one Zone Set can be active. However, isn't it also true that if I have 2 VSANs 3 and 5 defined on this single MDS, I can have 2 active zone sets (1 per vsan) correct...

Hi,  We have been using callhome to obtain port down conditions for many years.  When we went from NX-OS 4.2(3) TO NX-OS 5.2(6) we are no longer getting any emails.  We now have a real need to get these alerts. portshow destination profile informatio...

Sorry to be back with this but I am trying to troubleshoot some other connectivity errors.I have a switch where  the active vsan is vsan 3The active zoneset is vsan 3 with an example zone belowMTL-C9124FL12-2# show zoneset activezoneset name fab_2012...

I setup Radius on our 9509's and it did work fine and for no reason it has stopped working (nothing changed). It still works via CLI but not via Fabric & Device Manager (DCNM), just get "Unknown User or Password". Running 5.2(2)I have removed Radius ...

So we are replacing our McDatas with MDS 9124s. I think I have a good grasp on what and how to do what I have to do.  We have two storage controllers (netapp.. one for sata and one for sas). 2 sql servers (win 2003 and 2008r2) Two ESX servers and an ...

We are running nexus 5548up with NX-OS 5.2(1) connected to MDS 9222i. The nexus ports are in native FC mode. The nexus FC port should support a maximum of 240 Receive BB Credits according to "show interface fc1/30 capabilities" command, and also acco...

Hi,In my enviroment I have a datacenter with 2 Nexus 5548UP with FCoE Licence. I need some information about the configuration of FCoE.I explain Better the enviroment:2 x 5548UP 1 xC7000HP with 4 FEX B22HP installed in the enclosure2 x MDS 9506My Sto...

                   Hi allI have a strange behavior between 2 FI and 2 nexus 5k configured as VPC , From a remote location and from my desktop I can ping odd ip and not even , from an other desktop in the same LAN the reverse, for both the tracert are...

Hello experts,I would like to ask for your help, because I have a project to do, but I never made any configuration in MDS, my knowledge is in R&S.In the topology the first sw are fabric extender, after UCS blade, MDS and Storage and Tap backup.The y...

Hello,We are replacing a set of older Brocade switches with N5548UP switches in our data center. At first, we will just be doing Fibre Channel switching on these, and we are going to look at implementing the LAN features later. We ordered 2 5548UPs a...

Hi guysWould you please know if there will be really any annoucement in october from cisco about retiring the CCIE storage track ? i'm studying hard for the exam and you can't imagine how frustrating it is to hear such rumor