HiMy team leader has requested that i look into employing NPIVin our environment.However it seems to be inextricably linked in with NPV whicheffectively makes the non core switches into HBA aggregators.Is it possible to do NPIV with out using NPV - a...
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Resolved! N5k or MDS for SAN
Hi All,I am very new to this and have a general question to help me better understand Cisco SAN design.My question is how are N5K and MDS related or diffrent in a SAN architecture design, in relation to a SAN array (i.e. Netapp or EMC). Do you need b...
Resolved! about MDS 9222i config port-channel
dear everyone~ in project ,i need config MDS 9222i use 4 FCIP interface connect to 7606S 4 GE port for port-channel feature,but in MDS9222i i use port-channel commad ,cannot run。how can i config it？thinks~
Can storage change it's pWWN by itself, while migrating that link to another MDS in another fabric?We need to replace old MDS with new one, in dual-fabric environment.It's HP-UX and EMC mostly. Going to use same Domain ID and FCID:pWWN mapping.Our cu...
Hi,I have two Cisco new MDS9513 directors which i am trying to link with 6 ISL's. I have configured the port-channel (both side )and been added ports into port-channel 1.The ports are not coming up. What could be the problem? Any suggestions? Please ...
Hi all,I know that in some NX-OS versions we need to manually set some default system-qos policies in order to make FCoE to work on Nexus 5500UP:switch(config-sys-qos)# service-policy type qos input fcoe-default-in-policy switch(config-sys-qos)# ser...
Is it possible to disable FCOE on a single nexus 5548 interface?
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...
Resolved! Maximum number of fabric logins
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...
Resolved! Nexus 5k QoS Classifcation
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...
Resolved! FCP ISL theoretical question
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...
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