Storage Networking

Hi,our customer has got installed the 20-port-switch of the "Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Blade Switch for IBM BladeCenter". He wants to change some of the links now. For that reason he asked me:- Is there a fix relationship between a port and a license?-...

Folks, I have a switch model 9509 with ntp protocol enabled, in the last daylight (summer time) the switch clock wasn't actualized by NTP. When I try to modify with the command "#set clock" appears a message that's not possible and that I’ve to disab...

Hi all,It has been a while sine I've done ISLs between two MDS switches.  Here is the question I have.We have two sites A & B, the VSANs are as follows:Site A: VSAN40, VSAN80, VSAN100Site B: VSAN40, VSAN80, VSAN100As soon as the FCIP tunnel was creat...

Hello, colleagues.Kindly ask you for help in explanation of this IVR E_DEBUG message on MDS 9506:1) Event:E_DEBUG, length:56, at 63433 usecs after Tue Feb 16 18:08:47 2010    [825307441]  10:00:00:00:c9:89:9b:ca recvd DU_OFFLINE on vsan 52) Event:E_D...

Hi there,I´m currently looking for addtl. explanations / information regarding the "show logging onboard module" command which provides an output like this:------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERRUPT COUNT...

HI,I Just SetUp my new mds , and i want to Use the CALLHOME .So i Conf it , and when i tried to test it , I took One of my Storage Port Offine and at the consoLe i RUN :         show Logging LogfiLe | inc fc1/37I Got This Messageinterface Down Link F...

Hi,I have actually a problem with Fabric Manager when trying to activate a zoneset in one of my MDS9513 switch. I receive an error message saying : snmpd: Another copy operation in progress.  Only one operation allowed at any instanceOur support reco...

HiI have a problem with my Full zoneset database after performing a merge failure recovery, I was trying to import the Active Zoneset from OPP-SAN-Core1# sh zone status vsan 2 to BC19SANSw-A# sh zone status vsan 2 after a merge failure, I think I mig...

Hi All,I have a problem with two Cisco branded SFP's that keep reporting sfpVendorNotSupported in the Device Manager.I've tried;Re-seating the modules, swapping them into other ports and enabling/disabling the ports.Anyone have any other ideas I can ...

We can't activate our datacenter vsan zoneset.  The running zoneset is fine but we're trying to zone a new host to storage. We getZONE-2-ZS_CHANGE_ACTIVATION_FAILED: %$VSAN 11%$ Activation failed%ZONE-2-ZS_CHANGE_ACTIVATION_FAILED_RESN_DOM: %$VSAN 11...

After our MDS 9124 was upgraded from 3.1 to 4.2, it now logs in the config whenever a "show running-config" is done. This has somewhat become an issue because we use Cat Tools to backup our configs so when it logs in, it does a "show running-config" ...

Got 3 Qs:1) how do you save the config on N7K, or on NX in general?2) How to do image upgrade?3) Do I need to congif STP? and if so, do I need to config a switch as root? & how I can do that?Thx.

Hi Experts,Do you know where i can find reason as to why one of the MDS switches showing:FS1.DRC# show license usage ENTERPRISE_PKGApplication-----------ROnly Zoning----------- But Nothing shows up for these two other switches. FS1# sh license usage...

I would like to take formal class regarding the Cisco MDS technology. From a deployment/design perspective. Beginner/intermediate level. Does Cisco offer these classes and if so, can someone give me the title of the training class?I am having problem...