Storage Networking

We are building a new SAN using a Netapp Fas3160 with 2 controllers in failover mode. We have 1 6513 switch they will connect to for the etherchannels. Each Netapp controller will need an LACP port channel with 4 gig interfaces in each running to the...

Our current environment consists of two MDS9509s running on VSAN 1.  We have recently acquired a new customer that has its own SAN environment consisting of two MDS 9509s, one with VSAN 10 and the other with VSAN 20.  We have a need for hosts on VSAN...

We have two fabrics with four 9509’s and want to add two 9216i’s into the fabrics, to test a new location that is coming on-line soon. The 9509’s are running 3.3(1c) but the 9216i’s are running 3.3(4a), will that be a problem? Also can you look at th...

Hi all,I am new on thesse kind of configurations, but I have a HP Blade C3000 which contains a cisco switch MDS 9124e.I need to connect this switch to some external Brocad switches. How to map the traffic coming from a specific downlink ports to spec...

I recently went through a VSAN consolidation where i took 2 VSANs and combined them into a new VSAN.  The problem i have run into is that even after making sure that the domain id's of the source and destination VSANs were the same, the fcid's of the...

Greetings,I have two MDS switches that should have identical licensing/features installed.  One of the switches is continuously logging 'license file missing' for SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP_IPS4.  We are not using this feature.  What do I need to do to clear u...

Hello guys,i need to connect a couple of brocade blade enclosure switches (4024) to MDS 9513. I was going to go ahead and enable Access Gateway mode on the brocade but then i read a note about issues with hosts using Qlogic HBAs that connect through ...

Hi,     I am currently studying for the CCNP and interested in further training/certification with Cisco's storage networking.  My company offered EMC training and I wasn't sure which EMC certification track(s) paired the best with learning and getti...

I am working on a large data centre migration project, as part of the project I am designing a new SAN infrastructure to allow the migration into a new data centre. I have a question on SAN switch design to allow the newly installed Cisco SAN Directo...

If I want to upgrade our 5548's to the latest OS, do I also have to upgrade to the latest kickstart version as well ?Any help would be appreciated.CheersDave

Hi ,I have an MDS 9513 switchI've been having some performance issues and I'd like to rule out port group oversubscription. When I look in device manager and check oversubscription right now it looks fine. I'd like to use fabric manager to run a repo...

Currently testing Nexus 1000v in the lab and so far I have all of the Vethernet working with the correct vm's.Now I need to trunk back to a 10gig port on the Nexus 5548.Here is the config that I am using that appears to be workingport-profile type et...

We are about to migrate our vmware storage from fibre channel to storage over IP using NFS.Currently in the lab starting initial testing.Was hoping someone could direct me to a config guide for Nexus 5000 and Vmare.CheersDave