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Hello!I have a fairly new Nexus 5548 implementation, using the Nexus for stricly storage. I have two 5548s for two different Fabrics, for redundancy. They are two seperate fabrics, and the Nexus are not stacked so they are managed individually. When ...
We're currenlty running 3.3.4a, with 9016 and 9124 line cards. We want to put in some ds-x9224-96k9, but If I understand correctly, they will only run on an NX-OS, and the older cards (9016,9124s) won't. Can anyone confirm this for me?ThanksBrian
Hello All!I have been looking everywhere for a clear description of how to see/zone/manage virtual WWNs with NPIV on my Cisco 9509 switches and I can't find anything that actually details the zoning best practices or how to see the virtual WWNs. Thi...
On a Nexus I'm looking for an equivilent to a MAC address table listing but for WWN for true FC ports. Essentially I want to know the exact WWN of a connected device so I can document and confirm what device is connected to which port. For ethernet I...
Hi thereI need to provide documented references for a large SAN, and have a few queries.I have the show tech-supports for an edge-core-edge SAN consisting of 2 redundant fabrics.There are 4 host edges, 1 core, 4 storage edges per fabric. All are MDS ...
Hello,We are currently troubleshooting an FCOE connection from a server to a nexus 5596.the cna card is a brocade 1860 firmware is at 3.0.0.0 and the nexus os is at 5.1(3)N1(1)the pwwn of the server cna card never shows up in the flogi database....t...
Hello, From what I have gathered from documentation the Nexus is able to mark any DSCP value between 0-63. I would assume it would be able to classify based on any DSCP value as well. The documentation however leads me to believe otherwise. The lan...
Hi, I' ve got a theoretical question about the behaviour of ISL at Cisco MDS switches:I heard, that during a transfer (a continuous sequence of frames) between a target and an initiator (each of them are on seperated switches, which are connected wit...
Hello folksWe're playing with quite a few MDS9509, 9513 and other Cisco references.Good thing for us : it works so well that we haven't been that much into monitoring of thoses boxes However, as we've been working on snmp get for other pieces of hard...
Is there a way to trace the members of a port channel from show tech-supports from the core and edge switches?I have a large SAN and need to verify the config.I want to identify the switch and interface for both ends of the port channel.Eg, on the co...
Hi AllTrying to find the serial nos of a couple of 9134s.Been on the boxes CLIs and the 'show hardware'command seems to produce the serial no-Switch type is : MDS UROS 9134 FC (1 Slot) Chassis Model number is DS-C9134-K9 H/W version is 6.0 Part Nu...
I have had this question put to me by a customer."We have some MDS Switches running 3.3(5b). We need to enable NPIV on them.On v5 switches we had to reboot but the documentation on the Cisco website suggests this might not be needed for v3 switches....
Our AIX team wants to enable NPIV on both our Cisco MDS9513 directors to take advantage of there new VIOS servers. I couldn't find any documents relating to the minimum firware requirements on the switches that support NPIV. Does anyone know if the...
