Storage Networking

A large customer has a port-channel with six ISL is defined between the 9513 with a number of gen-2 12-port blade and a MDS 9506 edge switch running  NX-OS 4.1. To increase port density on the MDS 9513 core switch, the customer want to upgrade all th...

Dear All,I am interested in monitoring the interface statistics (In/Out bytes) of MDS9216 & MDS9124 Fabric Switches via SNMP and have been researching on what OID (MIB) values shall i poll? Would anyone be able to help me please? I have looked at man...

Hi.Besides gaining accessto the Cisco PEC learning center lab and Websites that offer Rack time, are there any otherways to gain Hands-On experience with the equipment that is required for the CCIE SAN? Anything that includes Simulators, Emulators, D...

We have a Cisco NSS3000 Network Attached Storage (NAS) where we store Office documents, where some of them appear as tmp files (for example 4C73F7A6.tmp) for all others accespt the person that created the file. We have tried to work with access right...

I have tried to figure out why the topology map will not show the end devices, and can not figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

hi, My company has purchased a nss6000.The instructions that warning of an firmware upgrade before performing any type of configuration.After updating it with the version 1.14-20 attempted join to domain returned error: Join to domain is not valid - ...

Hi,I am trying to rename a device alias on and MDS 9000 series SAN Core Switch in Fabric Manager. When I click on it to make the change, it takes it. Then I save it. When I exit out and come back in, the change is new name change reverts back to the ...

I read following phrase in configuration guide of Nexus 5020The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch is a Layer 2 device. This means it does not fragment frames. As a result,the switch cannot have two ports in the same Layer 2 domain with different maximum...

HiI want to config snmp traps from my new mds9513 to SCOMi configured the destination in Device Manager , and when i try to test it , we pool out one FC Port and got the Link Down MessageAnd when i Try to reset one Module i want to get an snmp trap a...

I inherited a storage network with 9509's at the core with some BladeCenters with Cisco switch modules in them.  I just added two more switch modules and have ISL's configured, but am having difficulty resetting the default passwords and adding the n...

Will enabling NPIV on a 9513 switch affect any of the currently configured ports or does the host attached to the port need to support NPIV? The 9513 has vsan1, 100 and 4094. VSAN 100 contains hosts and storage. There are 20 zones in VSAN 100. Any in...

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...