Storage Networking

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi,today I updated two of our Nexus 5548P switches and on both I recieved the messageImages will be upgraded according to following table:Module       Image         Running-Version             New-Version  Upg-Required------  ----------  ------------...

I noticed some high amounts of B2B credit transitions on several FC interfaces.   Most of the other links show 0 B2B credit transitions for both receive and transmit.       Two fc ports (connected to a EMC storage) show the following statistics. fc1/...

Hi,Our customer is willing to buy a N5K-C5596UP-FA and wants to know if he can use the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711 NIC for Fiber channel. Any help is much appreciated?

Hello all,I got a new c7000 with some MDS swithes.  I'm trying to get to the latest software.  I started at 4.1.x and can only get to 4.2.9.  I'm then trying to upgrade to 5.0.4d it fails.  In Fabric Manager it fails during copying and when i try to ...