Storage Networking

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...

hi there we are migrating from brocade to MDS and I think it makes sense to clean up the alias / zoning configurations during this time.  I have 3 storage arrays , 10 UCS Blade servers and 5 non-Cisco rack ServersAll devices have HBA1 and HBA 2 (the ...

I can easily able to enable smart zoning on a vsan via the cli, however does anyone know how to do this via DCNM? It appears that when I enable smart zoning via the cli, I can't seem to activate a zoneset via DCNM.

Hi As of now we are using local authentication with MDS. As part of security hardening We have to configure authentication through TACACS+. Windows 2016 Domain Controllers are in network. We have the following KB "https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/doc...

HiWe bought nexus 93180YC-FX switches and enabled fcoe feature with honor based license! now when we bind physical or port-channel interface to vfc, getting this error message:ERROR: fcoe_mgr: Failure getting MAC from MAC pool. Pool exhausted (err_id...

Hi There,We are working on an internal project to host VMware ESXi workloads and we are planning to deploy Gen7 SAN fabric for x86 Compute Chassis.Would like to know if Cisco UCS Blade chassis has 128Gbps QSFP FC ports and Cisco MDS has QSFP modules ...

Hello there, I have a question regarding the different alias modes.  Actually, I've always used FCAliases for my zoning.  Now, after having migrated DCNM 7x to the latest version 11.4, I couldn't find a way to add FCAliases into my zones in the web c...

Hi all 1) is there any command to see the WWN of all the interfaces in the FC switch ? I am using sh int at the moment 2) it is said that FCID is use to locate other switches/nodes in the fabric - what is the command to see which FCID is associated t...

Hello everyone !! Would somebody kindly help me to fix this issue?Due to security policies I need to receive the successful and unsuccessful SSH logins on my centralized syslog servers, I'm able to see and receive properly the unsuccessful login mess...