Storage Networking

We are not a big Cisco shop, so we don't have dedicated Cisco reps right now. We do have six MDS-9148s SAN switches used for tape.  Our data usage is very seasonal. Last X days doesn't provide a good picture. We need to see it in quarters or even yea...

Hey all - I'm probably being daft here, but if I want to setup email alerts for port up / port down or hardware issues, how do I determine what the severity is for each alarm?  

The deployment failed as devices were responding to connectivity tests to APIPA addressing (169.254.0.0/16) on the CIMC interface... This doesn't make sense to me as that addressing is only used on the isolated storage network, which is physically co...

Hi All,I have 2 MDS 9706 devices at DC and DR. There are 2 vsan on each director MDS.I want to change zone mode on VSAN to Enhaced mode. ( I want to use DCNM)I will use cli: Switch(config)# zone mode enhanced vsan <vsan number>If I do so on both VSAN...

Dear CISCO support, end of last year we talked with our CISCO TAC engineer about the availability of NX-OS 8.4.2.At that time they said it will be available and of March, beginning of April 2020. Does anybody has some idea or news when it will be ava...

Hi Community,I need to downgrade NX-OS 8.1 to NX-OS 7.3(0)D1(x) on MDS 9148s (HPE SN6010C) due to storage supported configuration. Is it possible? How do I do it? Any help highly appreciated.Thanks

hi,I have nexus 9k switches.   The switch is connected to iscsi storage how to enable jumbo frame on the interfaces which is connected to iscsi and server Thanks  

I need NSS326 version 1.5 firmware.Any help?Thanks in advance My email is bm333pw@gmail.com

Hi.Anybody knows logging files format in a MDS9000 switch? We want to pick up them (besides another kind of syslog from other types of machines) in a syslog server and we need to know how parse it to keep.Can anybody send me a syslog file (sent from ...

Hello, folks. A little confused about Fibre Channel FLOGIs. Does a server that has 2 HBA ports, each one connected to a separate air-gapped SAN (SAN A and SAN B), log into each SAN fabric? How does that work? Does the server receive 2 FCIDs, one from...

Hello, I want to know if CISCO has a tool like Broadcom san health. Thanks, 

Hello, We have a N7706 (module N77-F348XP-23) and  FEX N2248TF-EThis link says that N2248TF-E is a N2248TP-Ehttps://www.router-switch.com/pdf/n2k-c2248tf-e-datasheet.pdf This link says that N2248TP-E does not support FCoEhttps://www.cisco.com/c/en/us...

Hello team. I have a Hyperflex Cluster with 12 nodes. The DNS server that we used in the implementation was migrated to the new infrastructure. After a power outage, the cluster failed to start because there was no DNS server available to resolve the...