Storage Networking

I can see that both power supplies are ok, but no indication how they are configured.How can I find out if they are redundant or combined?---------------------------------------Chassis has 2 Slots for Power Supplies-----------------------------------...

Can someone help with this?VSANS are like VLANs in that they isolate ports in the MDS switch fabric so that only the ports in the VSAN can communicate with other ports in the same VSAN?What else does the VSAN do?Zones are logical connections in the V...

Hello. I am trying to install Fabric Manager 3.2.3 on W2K3 and after starting the GUI, it is stopped with no error messages. It is working OK on Windows XP.I have attached a shockwave to show you what I didAny help ??

I have and FCIP link to a remote site.A 9509 on the HQ side and a 9216 on the DR side. I have a DS3 pipe and the fcip profile is configured for:fcip profile 1 ip address 10.1.1.1 tcp max-bandwidth-mbps 1000 min-available-bandwidth-mbps 30 round-...

Hi,I have a question about iSCSI & HBAs...1) an HBA is a nic that uses its own processing power and doesn't use the PC processing power? 2) not sure whether iSCSI uses an HBA or regular nic, can it be used with or without an HBA?Thanks!LisaG

I am just wondering what the chronilogical order when creating a new vsan, zoneset zone and adding the new alias.Please someone give me your thoughts:I have a new server out of the box and I want to put on an existing SAN with a 9509 switch that alre...

It looks from the config the a Zone is the connection between the server and the switch port, is this correct?What is the difference between a Zone Set and a VSAN?

hello all.i am looking for MDS 9134 internal IC connection.

We exported a active zoneset as part of our backup procedure using:>zone copy vsan x active-zoneset tftp://xxx/xyz.txt How do we import this text file and activate the zones within this file?

We have a VSAN2 that consists of Tape libraries and their media servers sitting on one switch Fabric A. But we are splitting the VSAN2 onto two switches with logging into the same VSAN2 on Fabric B. But at the time of migration when we moved the tape...

I have a pending upgrade coming. I already know about the 9500 switch reboot and have taken precautions. My question is mainly around hba support. If the servers support the current version of 3.0.2a, am I going to have problems with the upgrade to 3...

We have four MDS switches here and one of them keeps asking for "Switch CLI Credentials" when I run "Show Tech Support" from Device Manager. The other three work fine. When I put the correct username & password it still comes back with the same error...

I am running Fabric Manager 3.1(2) to manage a pair of MDS 9509s. Every time I start the application, it discovers the fabric and gives it a new name with the next highest number than it used the last time. e.g., if it was called Fabric 2 last time...