Hello,I have a problem about Cisco MDS switch connection between servers and interoperability with other Cisco MDS switch. The topological structure is; in main (production) site, there exists one Hitachi 9980v storage subsystem which firmware lev...
Greetings,Perhaps someone here may have an answer to this. The other day someone approached me and asked would it be possible to somehow get a SCSI disk array available as iSCSI. It seems that HP have some sort of solution for this but we did not d...
Greetings,While trying to get SNMP traps running properly with Netview (if only I had Openview), I looked at using call home. Terrific product with the exception of one thing which probably does not affect the private sector. I would suggest that m...
Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting through a Cisco roadmap for what will be happening next year. Everyone else was a bit perplexed with the technical jargon but I thorougly enjoyed it especially the upcoming DWDM and CDWM integration directly i...
Greetings,I would like some advice on whether the training course Cisco Storage Network Design Essentials actually provides the skills needed for advanced SAN extension. In particular:Given a set of storage networking requirements and access to an o...
Hi,We have a HP pClass Blade System with an MSA 1000 for SAN requirements. The interconnect option we use is RJ45 PatchPanel2 with Fibre Channel pass thru.On the MSA we have two controllers with 2 MSA 2/8 Switches.I need to know if I need a SAN swit...
Greetings all,While I wait for our vendor to give me an answer on this, would anyone happen to know why Fabric Manager will not update.The only thing that looks odd is the two switches in Fabric Manager have yellow Status alarms that say timeout(Serv...
NTP & CFS does not seem to be sync'ing time between 3 MDS9216i switches running 3.0(3). According to the documentation, all is setup properly, but all 3 switches have different time values.The prefered switch is pointing to a Time Server throught th...
Greetings,I initially starting creating zones with fc aliases but after an episode where I had to move interfaces on a host for better redundancy, we decided to use switch and port interfaces for the zones. When the issue appeared with using fc alia...
I hear that Cisco are going to offer the 4 and 10 Gbps DWDM SPFs that plug directly into the MDS so I got a bit excited at work discussing this with the network people. They are mucking about with optical test gear right now.They raised a very inter...
I am trying to configure Cisco ACS 4.0 to authenticate Windows domain users who access Cisco MDS Switches but can't seem to get it work. Moreover, the users in Cisco ACS internal database also are not able to login to Cisco switches. Log file says th...
Is there an easy way to save my current static FCID values and load them to a new mds (assume the same VSAN and domain ids are used in the new switch).
Greetings,Perhaps this is not the right place to bring this up but I am getting a bit fed up with Cisco using resellers to supply the SAN switches. The reseller support for the most basic issues is pathetic. I am not able to get a CCO login and the...
I am looking for information on how to deploy CWDM Optics on the MDS 9112 12-port Module. Are there any caveats in doing this for remote FICON connecitivity over 10Km? Can we port channel across the link? Any info would be appreciated.
