For a lab environment, what are the inexpensive FCIP options available? My understanding is that 9216i and 9222i should all have FCIP licenses sold with them. But on IPS blades, you may have a blade in a 9216 or 9500 with no FCIP license. Are you ...
I am currently assembling a storage lab, and need to add some disk arrays. There are many out there that are just regular fc-al devices that don't support flogi (public). Can someone tell me what are some arrays which I can target that may be cheap...
The CLI config guide, cookbook, and other things I have found do not explain exactly what is getting translated to what with regards to IVR NAT. I setup a simple scenario, and its all working but I am trying to understand how virtual domains and NAT...
I have a couple of 9124's that I thought had flapping ISL's but it turns out they just every now and again reboot. I did a sho system reset-reason and this is the output:----- reset reason for Supervisor-module 1 (from Supervisor in slot 1) ---1) No ...
Hi All,I am getting the following error on a brand new MDS 9124 and the port gets disabled.Module Slot Number: 1Device Id : 92Device Name : Atlantis-fcpDevice Errorcode : 0xc5c00503Device ID : 92 (0x5c)Device Instance : 00 (0...
Hi thereMDS 9120, SW: version 3.3(1c)I have a question regarding NPIV with VMWare. My ESX has created the virtual WWNs (4 in Total) and during boot up, i do see them registering in the fcns:----cut---1983 Jan 26 01:26:18.451113 fcns: vsan 1: Receive...
I tried to port channel a port from a Gen 1 16 port line card and a Gen 2 24 Port card. I had the gen 1 port set to auto auto and by default it's running dedicated. The gen 2 port was set by default to shared which didn't allow the E port to come u...
I am unclear on how to connect to an ONS from a MDS 9513 for a DWDM ISL. Are the sfp's on the MDS standard short wave sfp's or do I need a "DWDM SFP" such as: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps5455/ps6576/product_data_sheet0900aec...
Greetings,I have a request to combine a Brocade fabric with a Cisco fabric and I was just wondering what the consequences of this would be. The Cisco fabric is basically just one VSAN and it has storage, hosts and most importantly a large VTL system...
Hello,we have 2 datacenter (backup), we need to implement SAN over MPLS (perhaps with copper : G.SHDSL, or FO ), is it possible ?and how can we interconnect the 2 MDS, (through our WAN connexion, router, firewall, IPS...?) or connect directely the MD...
