Storage Networking

Hi!I was checking some information about LSI Controller Mega RAID SAS 9260-4i, and it says that it can support 128 SATA or SAS Drives, but it has only 4 Port internal 6Gb/s SATA+SAS. I was wondering how are those 128 drives connected to the server?? ...

We are getting these errors on 1 blade in our UCS system. We are running b200 blades with 6100 fabric extenders. The blades have the emulex cards. When the errors were coming in the network LED on the front of the blade was out, but the VM'd hosts we...

Hello allI'm looking to update our documentation on MDS9000 switch recovery - specifically replacing the whole switch after an swapout.The MDS cookbook has a procedure for replacing one but makes no mention of what to do differently if the switch is ...

OK,So I attempted to connect a new MDS 9509 Running NX-OS 5.0 (7) to an older MDS 9509 running SAN-OS 3.3(2) and it was a dismal failure.What I want to accomplish is this:Migrate my current production VSAN0002 from old switch to the new switch and th...

Hello all,I have a 9124 fiber switch and need assistance with the configuration.  The switch is connected to two host servers and on the other end a tape storage device.  I have two fiber cards on one host and one fiber card with two ports on the oth...

After update to NX-OS 6.0(1), we can't seem to get shared interface allocation to work.Has anyone had success with the "allocate shared interface" command?The error message says a vdc must be configured for fcoe sharing.  How do you do that?switch(co...

Hi,Our four MDS 9500 are going EoL next year. What product shall we go for.Is MDS 9500 a dead end?

I currently have a nexus 5010 with 10gb hosts and fiber attached storage at location A. At location B, I have an additional nexus 5010 with 10gb host with a CNA that will be using fcoe to connect to storage. I'd like for the host at location B to con...

Hi everyone,I'm trying to setup a Cisco Data Center Lab.And i have only one MDS 9124 as a SAN Switch but two Fabric Interconnects.I wonder is there any chance to connect one MDS to two Fabric Interconnects on the same time.I'm asking that because if ...

Hi All,I have a customer whose Fabric consists of the following:Fabric_1 : 2 DirectorsFabric _2 : 2 DirectorsFor Fabric_1 customer has used up the 120 grace period for FM_Server, for Fabric_2 customer has not used the Grace period for FM_Server but w...

Hello,We defined device-alias name for all pwwn on all SAN directors usingconfig tdevice-alias databasedevice-alias name xxxxxxxxxxxxdevice....device....device-alias commitexitchecking withshow device-alias database--> all is "aliased" ok!Now looking...

I had a cisco9124 switch and enabled npiv on the switch.also I had a HBA card, and setup a N-port. I can find the N-port pwwn number on the cisco9124,and setup the virtual pwwn to my vsan1.my question is: my  configuration is correct? can let 9124 d...

This is probably a really stupid question but I'm new to FC so bare with me.I know that 8Gb FC equates to about 6.5Gb on FcoEIf I have a 10GB CNA and I am running nothing but FCoE down it (no data just SAN stuff) form a server does the HBA interface ...

I am having a problem with getting the Qlogic 8150 working in a windows 2008 R2 server. I have the SAN connectivity working but I am having problem with  the networking.I have setup VLAN 666 as the data vlanOn the ethernet trunk I have setupethernet ...