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Hello I 'm new to CISCO  Switch world.I 'm working as Clariion Admin and have have taken up the responsibilty to manage switches.Since,i am a novice i need little guidance on how work on cisco switches.I know the Zoning (how zoning done on MDS 9000 s...

hellotrying to modify interop mode received this error messagewhat does it mean ?do i need to shutdown vsan first ?thanks for any advice or pointerJYP

Folks,How i can safely clean the logs of an cisco switch (MDS 9500 family)?

Greetings,When I do a sho int fcx/x counters, I can see information that really doesn't make much sense to me and its not explained anywhere that I can easily find. One in particular is:<number> bb credit transitions from zero.I also see the same <n...

I am planning on increasing the bandwidth on an existing PortChannel group this coming Weekend. Although, I have done this on a couple of occasions earlier in prior versions of SANOS, but we are at a newer version of SANOS (3.3.2) now and hopefully i...

Hello Does anyone know if the DS-SFP-GE-T= is the same SFP as a 1000BaseT-SFP-GLC-T= ? the application is a 9216i uplink to a 6509ThanksRobert

Is there a command to show when a MDS switch was first powered on. What I mean by this is the first time the switch was brought up after it was manufactured. Say for example, you have MDS that's 5 years old and you want to know when it was first po...

hiwhat is the process in order to do password recovery on MDS9124e since there are console port ?same question for NXOS recovery ?thanks for any helpJYP

Greetings,Looking at a release note matrix for NX-OS, it states that the MDS 9216a and 9140 are not supported by NX-OS. As the 9216a was only End of Sales date on 22 nd of August this year, do we have to put up with SAN-OS for the next five years? ...

Do I need the Fabric Management software to configure the FC & FCoE features on the N5K? Can I use the unlicensed version, if I just have (2) N5K's in a cluster? Do I still need to install the database, if I don't use the Performance Monitor?

Hi,I've changed an HBA on two servers.In the fabric manager I see the old WWN and the new WWN.I've seen that the command used to erase unused WWN is purge fcdomain fcid vsan ID_VSAN.Is there a contraindication? Is there the danger of disrupt somethin...

HelloCan i connect a nexus 5010 with a switch brocade 300??? if the answer is yes, how can i do this???Thanks,

¿Is it posible to use VPN on MDs CISCO 9509? We have version 3.0(2) but we are going to upgrade to 3.3(3).Thanks in advance.

Hi, I am facing an issue as:Two data center Houston & Dallas.Right now, the data replication is done by SQL Server. However it is not reliable and slow.So I am looking for a hardware solution that is more reliable, fast. I wonder if Cisco MDS product...