Storage Networking

I (my customer) does not get SNMP Traps from the N5k when he unplugs one power supply (only logs). He gets only traps when he turns both power supplies off. If I check show snmp trap all trap entity are enabled (rmon Trap are off). NX-OS is 4.2(1)N2(...

Guys i am a well qualified enginner but never had change to design a network for SAN. now the time has come and one of our customer has asked us to design a SAN network for them. they have two datacentres but to be honest i dont have any clue can som...

the posts that talked about this were over a year old.  I've tried FM Server 5.0.4 and it still barks at me about incompatible version of Windows (but crappy old Vista is in the list.)  The brain wizards here are going to make us all standardize on a...

Hi everybody,I need help about ntp issue on my Cisco MDS (m9100-s2ek9-kickstart-mz.5.0.1a.bin ,  m9100-s2ek9-mz.5.0.1a.bin)All my Cisco network equipements synchronises to my ntp server (Cisco catalyst 6500) without any problem except Cisco MDS equip...

I have an MDS 9222i that is at 3.23(a) and I want to go to 5.01a.  The tech papaers say to go to version 3.3 then to 4.2 then to 5.01 for a non disruptive upgrade.  The switch has only 1 Sup card which means any upgrade is going to be disruptive.  He...

Hi All,          I have merged some zones on creating ISLs. When I am in fabric manager on VSAN10 I can see the zones, when I go to edit the Zone database the zones are not there??Any ideas??

Hi, I have a MDS9506 v 3.3(1c) that is denying power to the 4th module.  I did a show environment power cmd and got the following:Each of the 2 modules has 1019.34 power (watts) but it is set in redundant mode.  The Power (Amp @42V) is 24.27 for each...

Hello,We have to fabrics with MDS9513 directors.Yesterday we got a change of principal switch message and the VSANs notice on one of the fabrics.Everything continued to work normally.Is this a normal occurance? What could be the reason? Is it a serri...

Hello all, I have a 2950 router. I want to upgrade my memory. From what I hear Cisco offers memory upgrades, but it's for hundreds of dollars. I also heard that I could go through other vendors and it would not cost an arm and a leg. Could anyone...

Hi All,,I need your expert suggestion on how do i get rid of the fabric merging situation on my Fabrics.Below is a short description of my environment..We have 2 Fabrics in our environment namely FAB A and FAB B, we have been running on this for the ...

Hi everyone,Can you please get the part number for the below cisco product. should this be the mds 9500 series?please adviseCISCO SAN SWITCH WITH SUPPORT FORMS A 2000 ARRAY STORAGEthankssam

I did a review of the ieMentor CCIE Storage Workbook and Walkthrough books for CCIE Storage lab study.  You can read my review hereThe short of it is I found the materials to be very good.  If anyone has any specific questions about them feel free to...

After i connect MDS using FMS 5.0.1a and then when i try to discover MDS, occured error massage "logics_fabric does not exist"i can't connect MDS