Storage Networking

How to interconnect two FC fabrics based on Cisco MDS 9124 to HP C7000 Blade Center

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...

Resolved! High memory usage on Cisco MDS 9124e

Our monitoring tool is reporting high memory usage on a MDS 9124e switch. The used memory percentage exeeds 90% all the time, for the last couple of months. Most of the time the usage is around 95%. CPU usage however, never exeeds 10%. The same stat...

Resolved! MTU 9126 removes qos group 1

Wanting to enable MTU 9216 on a Nexus 5548UP (vPC enabled) which also has hosts / storage attached via native FCoE. Following these guidelines we found that the NetApp UCNA FC interfaces dropped out of the fabric and would no longer login. After some...

Link FC between Nexus 5548 UP and Brocade 300

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,

Interconnecting Nexus 5k with DELL Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 NIC

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...

Resolved! iSCSI and NX-OS

Thrown into a project starting Monday with 2 5548 switches and the customer wants to do SMB, iSCSI, and NFS. It is coming with a layer 3 card so I get the NFS and SMB. But isn't there a feature to be enabled with NX-OS or lun database to set up? ...

Plan to introduce a resilient MDS 9124

Hi forum,I currently have a single MDS 9124 which my SAN and virtual servers connect to.I have purchased a second MDS 9124 with the view to providing resilient connectivity to my SAN and servers, with a Fabric A/Fabric B design.Example diagrams of cu...

Port-Channel issue between UCS FI and MDS 9222i switch

Hi I have a problem between UCS FI and MDS switch port-channel. When MDS-A is powered down the port-channel fails but UCS blade vHBA does not detect the failure of the port-chanel on UCS-FI and leaves the vHBA online. However, if there is no port-cha...

MDS 9120 (DS-C9120-K9)

Howdy,Recently had a 9120 stop working on me. The Status LED is orange, and stays orange. I read from the Hardware Troubleshooting:"The Status LED flashes orange once and stays orange during diagnostic boot tests. It turns green when the switch is...

Resolved! MDS 9124 -- Limited Command Set?

I've got two MDS 9124 FiberChannel switches, and can SSH into them using RADIUS authentication with my domain admin user.I'm trying to do things, like update the license file, but lots of "normal" commands, like "copy" which is documented in the lice...

Resolved! Single vHBA for Multiple Storages

Hi,I am stuck with a confusion; I have UCS chassis with 6 blades in my DC connected with EMC storage. Now I want to integrate IBM storage with same UCS blades and chassis. Question is. Do i need separate vHBAs for both storages and single/common vHBA...

Nexus 5596UP and Nexus 4001I

Sorry for asking this kind of question but I'm new configuring switches Nexus, I want to connect a Nexus 5596UP with a Nexus 4001I, I have read configuration guides that are available on Cisco web but some options are not clear enough to me, so it wi...

Resolved! FCIP and VNX MirrorView Connection

Hi I am not sure what I am doing wrong but I cannot get VNX 5700 MirrorView initiators to register, kind of lost. Here is the setup.Got three data centre and each have two MDS switches (A & B) with VNX 5700 storage system.Got set up like this to keep...

Unable to activate changes to a zoneset

We have a Cisco MDS 9509 5.0.4(d) connected to these are brocade HP C class switches most have been set to Access Gateway mode but we have two that are in interop mode.When we attempt to activate any chnages to the active zoneset with get the follo...

UCS blades do not flogi after n5k reboot?

Hi,We have a Flexpod setup wherein the UCS is hooked on to nexus 5548UPs and using FC for san-booting the blades. I was doing some failover testing and noticed that when i rebooted nexus5k-A (fabric-A) all the blades (ESXi and HyperV both) on the UCS...

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How to interconnect two FC fabrics based on Cisco MDS 9124 to HP C7000 Blade Center

Resolved! High memory usage on Cisco MDS 9124e

Resolved! MTU 9126 removes qos group 1

Link FC between Nexus 5548 UP and Brocade 300

Interconnecting Nexus 5k with DELL Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 NIC

Resolved! iSCSI and NX-OS

Plan to introduce a resilient MDS 9124

Port-Channel issue between UCS FI and MDS 9222i switch

MDS 9120 (DS-C9120-K9)

Resolved! MDS 9124 -- Limited Command Set?

Resolved! Single vHBA for Multiple Storages

Nexus 5596UP and Nexus 4001I

Resolved! FCIP and VNX MirrorView Connection

Unable to activate changes to a zoneset

UCS blades do not flogi after n5k reboot?

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