Storage Networking

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...

Is it possible to use f2 module port as shared port while configuring storage vdc in nexus7000?Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPhone App

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...