Storage Networking

Hi,I have a Nexus 5000 conected with a UCS C-200 with qlogic CNA in FCoE. The ethernet traffic is ok, but FC dont work fine, i thinks that i have configured all ok, by the show int vfc show the trunk vsan in initializating mode and i dont find what i...

I have two switches joined in a single fabricMDS 9120 san-1a fabric policy switchMDS 9124 san-1b added for additional port capacityNo longer require so many ports, so I've migrated all host connections to san-1b and want to retire san-1a, but it seem...

Hi , i just installed 2 new switches and i see in the statistics that 85% of memory is used with a very lite configuration .is this normal ? 

cisco MDS 9100 ("1/2 Gbps FC/Supervisor")System version: 3.3(4a)Please anyone tell me how to do a gracefull shutdown of a Cisco MDS SAN switch? .  I have followed the manuals but they only talks about shutting down of a individual interfaces, but not...

Hello,I have a MDS9513 with  24 ports 1/2/4 Gbps FC Modules (DS-X9124) switch is running NX-OS 4.1.3aI have configured some port-channels with speed of 2GBPs per port and 3 ports on the channel, each ( 6 GBPs per channel, at total)for two channels, I...

I am going to build a RAID5  config in my Cisco/Linksys NSS6000.  I am going to buy (4) Sata drives but  wasn't sure if there is a limit to the size of drives that the NSS6000 can  handle.  I was thinking of getting (4) 500gb drives but am seeing 1.5...

HiI am new to MDS configuration.Is there a step by step configuration document? ThxCheersKumar

Hi,We have a few  cisco MDS 9124 switches some of which seem to reboot there kernel at various time during the day.Has anyone experienced this before?I have pasted a few outputs below:-llswL1san3# sh log nvram2008 Aug 29 02:50:57 llswL1san3 %LICMGR-2...

Has anybody configured this for  IVR ? I use persistent FC IDs for my regular VSANs because i have a  couple of AIX boxes. I will also have a couple of them access storage  via IVR, dynamic tracking is not enabled on the host so i am wondering  if i ...

Hi all,I have a requirement of 128 port SAN switch (Director class)-          15 ports should be iSCSI 10g-          Rest 113 port should be 8 Gbps FC      I am planning to go with two DS-X9248-96K9 module and one DS-X9224-96K9 to meet 120 ports.But ...

I've searched and found a couple of older posts (2005 and 2007) about this and the answers at the time were along the lines of "Not available" and "Not yet, on the roadmap".I'm hoping that the answer has changed by now, so...Is it possible to add the...