Storage Networking

Hello,How can I display / list an interface(s) link cost settings?This after a CLI: fspf cost xxx vsan YYYRgds,Ivy

we get the following error while trying to login to the fabric."SNMP engine discovery timeout. It could be ---busy newtwork---no route from null/0.0.0---10.64.18.61 snmpd is unresponsive"but sometimes we are able to login. If we keep on trying to log...

Hello,I did a fabric Manager update from 4.2(1b) to 4.2(7b).Altough I reused the original 4.2(1b) Oracle Database all my historical performance monitoring in Fabric Manager Web Client was lost!What went wrong?What should I do in the future to safegua...

Hello guys,I have a tape library that is located on campus but only connected to one FC switch.  I have two redundant links to the switch and would like to load balance the load as much as possible. Does my layout look reasonable ?  I hate connecting...

One of my switch is showing unusual behaviour. Few ports went into "initialising" mode and refused to come up.Once I change the VSAN of the port, they come up well. If the VSAN is set back to original value, it again goes down.Event log shows followi...

If yes, on the SAN-OS is this feature turned on by default as well?

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...