Storage Networking

Can we setup the Nexus 5020 as a Fibre Director and remove our Brocade Fibre switches completely?We would like to be in Fabric mode and not use NPV mode and manage the fibre domains & zones complely within our 5020s....eventually migrating all device...

I work for a large storage provider and would like to get trained on the Cisco storage training.  What courses would you suggest?

Hi all,We have two sites about 1000 miles apart.  Each site has virtual tape library connected to a Cisco MDS9222i.  Each of the switches also has (2) GigE ports and the FCIP licenses.  We created an FCIP tunnel and tried to use IVR, but the fabrics ...

Hello all,in our company we have SAN with several MDS 9509 and 9513 switches. We use a FMS 4.1 for management.The cabling is done by a subcontractor. In future they should also do the port assignment. Enable/disable ports, change the port description...

I am unable to find something that points to the source of an error seen in the Backup tab of my FMS Web Client.I am using OracleXE with FMS 5.01a (switch firmware is 4.2.3)I am trying to backup the running config to my TFTP host (defined as my FMS h...

I have a customer who needs to erase the configuration on their Supervisor-1 cards prior to shipping them out.  We have a couple of 9513swhich are not in production, yet.  Can we plug the Supervisor-1 cards into the 8513sjust long enough to erase the...

Can someone explain what uses SW_ILS command code 0x78?  I see this when analyzing PAA dumps of trunk links and I wasn't sure what the purpose of this is.Thanks,Brian

Hi,We're running a set of 5010 switches and in preparation for some soak testing embarked on setting up our usual snmp based monitoring. After letting the graphs settle we started to see wild results in terms of the amount of traffic claiming to trav...

Within this field notice it states that: "The m9500-sup2dimm-gplug-mz.3.4.1.bin utility will run on SAN-OS Release 3.x running on Supervisor 2 modules." However when I issue the load bootflash:m9500-sup2dimm-gplug-mz.3.4.1.bin I get the following err...

hi,   could anybody tell me what is actually mean by Network device backup , how can we do it .

Trying to connect 9124e blade switches to 9513 core switch.cfs distribution enabledvsans matcheson 9124e     - npv enabled     - host ports set to F     - external uplinks set to NP     - flex-attach enabled on host portson 9513     - npiv enabled   ...

Hi forum,I am currently preparing a test setup where it would very helpful to use LUN zoning.I found the following  statement in the Nexus 5000 SAN Switching Configuration Guide 4.2(1)N1(1):Cisco NX-OS software supports the following types of zoning:...