Storage Networking

Hi ,Currently in my both DC's , we are lacking capacity on Cisco MDS 9148 production Switches but we got new Brocade switches to extend the capacity of SAN switches - which means we want to connect more physical servers to brocade switches or extend ...

Hello Community, I tried to describe my issue through the title of this discussion. I have a problem in regards to the connection between the MDS Switches and Nexus Switches at a Customers Data Center. So far we have configured our Ports in this way:...

In HyperFlex native replication, how many target datastores can you pair with a single source datastore?

I have a pair of MDS 9132T on 8.4(2a), I have previously successfully configured fresh fc ports, when going to use a port that was pre-populated with an SFP (just to imply some previous config may have existed) I assigned the vsan, however I noticed ...

Dear , I have the below architecture. as you can see FI_A connected to MDS_A and FI_B connected to MDS_B. both MDS are connected to three storage array (netapp ,hp3par, IBM).My questions :I have only one vSAN (vSAN100) on both MDS (A&B) , the same al...

We have a recently installed MDS 9148T. This switch is running an HTTPS service with a self-signed certificate. I've created a trustpoint and generated a CSR and obtained and installed a certificate. I disabled/enabled the http-server but it still pr...

Hello, Sorry for this long-winded post... I am more of a routing and switching kind of guy but stuck managing a small SAN with backend fiber. This is probably a simple task for an expert but its so far out of my area of expertise so I wanted to get s...

I am going to install new QLE2692 Dual-port 16G FC on our UCSC-C220-M5SX servers. My question is "which PCIe slots is best to install them on one or two and I cannot find any post installation steps to ensure I did the install correctly and updated.

We have 3 HX Edge nodes without Fabric Interconnect but we do have Nexus 9k as TOR switches.Can we build cluster with the help of HX data platform? If yes then how?orWill it be build only with Intersight On-prem because cloud option is not available ...

Most of the time when we try to take hyperflex snapshots on VMs option gray out.In order to fix needs to follow below steps - from vCenter Menu-->Cisco HyperFlex-->hit "rescan" option then you see the cluster after this steps we are getting HX-snapsh...

Hello, I am trying to follow the instructions here http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/storage-networking/mds-9000-series-multilayer-switches/29441-8.html I reboot the switch, and before it extracts the boot image, I perform a ctrl - c (ctrl - ...

HelloCan anybody explain what is the point of Area ID in FCID? I tried to search on the internet, but no luck. In some documentation said that Area ID is used in FC-AL topology, but non mentioned clearly how it is used. Also, i can't understand the s...