Storage Networking

I know this question has been asked before, However, I am trying to conduct some training and would like to get a copy of the san simulator if possible.I have a copy which looks like a partial download and can only bring up the device manager. It ap...

Here is an interesting problem on hand that I need some insight into. We had a 2Gb MainFrame 2064 Ficon channel reading data from a 4Gb disk. The mapping was 1:1. The data was all SAP. There was a IBM 2109-M48 Ficon director in between with its port ...

Hi there,We have a situation where we will have multiple customers hosted on a 9513 and sharing a single storage array.We want to keep the logically seperated in their own VSANs, but of course the storage array will need to be zoned to all the custom...

I tried to delete a user under Fabric Manager -> Users and Roles... -> Users and receive the error "Privacy Unsopported for this User" or "The Current User is not operating at authPriv SNMPv3 security level. Failed. Same thing happens when I try to...

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?