Storage Networking

Hi,I'm configuring a MDS 9506 as a mirror of a MDS 9513 because my customer is preparing a data center migration.I've found that 9506 has a ficon address limit of 153, but I need to address ports up to address 230.Do you know if there is possible to ...

I have a situation where I need to move 50+ Aliases and 100+ zones from a VSAN that has 1000+ zones into a new VSAN and Zoneset. I know what when the port membership changes to the new VSAN the FCID will change. Is there a way to migrate the 50+ Alia...

Need help badly.I have 2 nexus 5596 in VPC mode. Each one has a blade switch connected to it.blade1--Nx1---Nx2----Blade2Nx1 and Nx2 can ping management address on Blade2Nx1 and NX2 cannot ping blade1. Nx1 see blade1 in cdp nei table.Nx1 shows Blade1 ...

Tried 1, 3 and 7 m Cisco twinax cables, but Brocade is always reporting unsupported SFP. What should be used? Is there any twinax vendor that's is supported by both?Thanks.

Hi,I am seeing a weird behaviour with this Nexus 5548p-2 switch. My interfaces are configured for FCoE. Initiator logs into the switch stay on name server for a few minutes and then logs out. If i go and do a disable/enable at the pcie device on the ...

Hello,I'm facing a behavior that is absoluty insane.quick intro:a core edge topology with 2 edge switches, 1 MDS 9134 and 1 Nexus 5548 connected (ISL) to a director MDS 9509. they are all running NXOS 5.xhosts are connected to the 2 switches and the ...

Hello,We have setup Call home already on our MDS and it is working perfect, but I want that this X-bar error gets also reported in Call Home.What i have to do that the following event on a MDS 9513 are send out via Call Home to EMC or my email addres...

Hi,We have this c5548p switch working for a while. Then recently it started rebooting itself frequently and finally going to loader prompt. Does any one know how to boot using tftp server from the loader prompt? I tried but said file not found. The s...

Hi,i'm trying to configure a virtual call recording  solution. I want to use ERSPAN to send the traffic from the phones to  the recording system on a Virtual Machine. The virtual infrastructure  has a Nexus 1010 installed. I'm folloing the administra...

I just completed the install of Fabric Manager 5.0(7) successfully.For some reason, when I type in the IP address from IE browser (at a different host) to install the new version of Device Manager 5.0(7). it returns with the installation for 4.1(3a)....

Any ideas how to NOT USE errdisable or allow the FCoE switch to put a port / interface / VFC  into an error disabled state?I do not see any command(s) to NOT use this feature.thanksmatt

I have a client that uses a very old mainframe that can only take ESCON.  Obviously I would like to use a modern director storage platform, and I am looking for a device that can bridge ESCON to FICON.  Has anyone heard of such a thing? Recommendatio...