Storage Networking

Hi,May someone let me know where can I found some documets about changing principal role of MDS 950 switches. Currently we have 2 MDS 9505 switches. We would like to change the principal role from the current one to the other. Please guide me.Thanks

I have four 9509's and want to know if I can use 8Gb on them? They have Supervisor 2 line cards in them and running 3.3(1c). What needs to be chnaged for 8Gb to work e.g. Hardware, Firmware upgrade, HBA's, etc.....Thanks

I am getting timeouts for switch connectivity on Fabric Manager. The error in the log is below. Would this be a firewall issue?An authentication problem? Or a configuration problem?%SNMPD-3-ERROR: SNMP log error : usm_process_in_msg : SNMP UDP authen...

WS-C3750G-48TSNOS-12.2(25)SEE2I have a dynamic port channenl setup on Cisco+NetApp environemt where i have 6 interfaces(1Gbps) on that trunk for load balancing and reduntancy reason.But i see the interfaces are not balanced on receives or inbound. I ...

I'm trying to migrate from a 9124 to 9148 and it's mentioned in the procedure that for this to be done both switches must be at the same Firmware level, I want to keep the old version (4.2(1a)) on the new switch (which came to me shipped with 5.0(1a)...

Hi peepsHave a little issue with a Cisco NAS NSS 326 Smart Storage 6 bay - with RAID 5 over 6 disks.Apparently there were some funny business with the performance with the device so someone reset the device from the button on the back.I've been ask t...

Hi Team,We would like to take ur suggestions in getting the best industry standards for implementing storage data replication.In precise we would like to understand if we need to apply links at core layer or at a lower layers like aggregation/access....

The error reads  "The Network adapter could not establish the connection" when I try to login into the software.  Besides the obvious, has anyone ever seen this error and fixed it? 

Can someone please help me understand advantages/disadvantages of MDS9513 compared to MDS9148We are actually looking for a small datacenter deployment purpose and MDS9148 suits the requirement.However I would like to understand if we can liverage any...

Hi,Can MDS9124 in IBM Blade Center with NX-OS 5.0 (4b) be isl'ed to MDS9513 witn 4.2 (7b) (can't be upgarded due to Ficon limitation).Where can I find interop documentation between different SANOS/NXOS levels?Thanks,Ran

Hi,I have a Nexus 5596UP switch with L3 Card. The Management interface is configured as below.interface mgmt0  description MGMT INTERFACE  ip address 192.168.255.252/27vrf context management  ip route 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.255.254The management interface...

Dear All,Let me explain the existing situation and then will come to problem description.We do have Virtual distribution switch with 3 ESX box connected. And also we have two virtual connect (VC) , from which the etherchannels are formed between Acce...

Hi       Am searching best design to implement CISCO MDS 9513,9509, Brocade 8510,Storage and UCS all clubbed in the topology. And please suggest me any tool to compare MDS and Brocade 8510 performance.

Hi   Both our IBM support engineer and our HDS support engineer have suggested that the IBM Z10 has to convert from ficon to FC and therefore may require a "Mainframe Pkg" license on the Cisco 9509 switch.   Would you have information to support this...