Storage Networking

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 ----|              ...

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...

Hi,I would like to interconnect one HP C7000 Blade Center to our SAN Network.As described in the attached file, the SAN network consist of two (02) fabrics based exclusively on Cisco MDS 9124 FC switches.The HP C7000 Blade Center is equiped of two (0...

Hello,I have got two Nexus 5548UP and fabric Brocade.I would like to connect my Nexus at my fabric Brocade.See the pdf file.Best regards,

Hi,Our customer wants now to buy a Nexus 5000 and the:DELL Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 Network Interface Card http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/broadcom-netxtremeii-57711/pdandDELL 10GbE SR SFP+ Transceiver for Broadcom 10GbE Dual Port Server Adap...