Storage Networking

Greetings,I have some 24 port (4 Gpbs) cards in my Gen 2 line card 9509's and while trying to add 4 Gbps ISL's, I can't seem to get some ports to accept 4 Gpbs dedicated E port settings. Some ports do but some ports don't. I keep getting a popup s...

My customer has a small shop with 2 servers runnig iSCSI to a SAN device. They are looking for a switch recommendation and I would like to use a pair of Cisco 3750's, to take advantage of the VSS technology for redundancy,L3 and some other Core requ...

I need to add some new 9124 switches to an existing fabric that consists of a 9509 Director. The 9509's are on version 3.3.3 and I plan to put the 9124 on the same version. Are their any best practices for adding new switches, creating the ISL's and ...

Currently we have a process that captures the output of show tech detail to a text file and that gets piped to a txt file and then copied to a server. This whole process was created back in the 2.x days. Now I see the option to do an image of the N...

Does NPIV need to be enabled on all core switches or only those that will be connected to the NPV enabled 9124e blade switches? There are four core switches in each fabric but only one 9513 will connect to the blade switches.Thanks.

I'm looking into a design at the moment based on Cisco 9513. Am I right in thinking that to achieve the 192G full duplex bandwidth per slot I need to have 2 Fabric-2 modules and run them active/active ? If that is the case what happens if one of them...

Hello,I have several Clariion connected to a MDS 9509 running SANOS 3.3.1c.From Fabric Manager I ran the end to end connectivity tool against a zone-set.After the tool ran, I received several warning from my Clariion regarding initiators logged in bu...

Hi All,Is there any Weekly/Monthly New Product Launch (NPI) sessions or tech-talk from Cisco to discuss about any known current issues/Best Practices ..?Regards,KK

Issue on Cisco Device Manager:Community column list is showing blank but able to see the Role column.Able to see the Community name from CLI.Able to add/Delete Community from CLI.If I try Add/Delete Community from GUI, getting the error "permission d...

I am pretty confuse about Cisco MDS trial license. I have found Cisco documents that states that Cisco switches comes with trial licenses and 120 days grace period.I want to enable IVR (ENTERPRISE_PKG) in a switch that never used that, but the commma...

Hi all,Our site is running a MDS switch combination of 9216's and 9120's with 3.1(1) firmware. I have just received some new gear to replace the 9216's, two 9222i's and two 9216a's and would like to upgrade the firmware on my whole fleet. What too? ...