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Can someone explain the math behind the 3.2:1 oversubscription on the 2Gb, 32 port cards? Thanks in advance

I have never worked on a MDS switch and I am tasked with password recovery on a mds9216. Please clarify the following step outlined in the recovery document. What command will I use from the switch(boot)# to find the correct file to load?? I am th...

I meet a very strange problem when I tried to connect MDS9509 to Brocade 3800.The firmware of 9509 is 2.1(2d) and the firmware of 3800 is v3.2.1. The topology is as below.server1--3800A---3800B-----9509-----disk | ...

Hi we are trying to secure the mgmt0 interface on our MDS:MDS(config)# ip access-list mgmt permit tcp any any eq port telnetMDS(config)# ip access-list mgmt permit tcp any any eq port sshMDS(config)# ip access-list mgmt permit tcp any any eq port htt...

Hi, I've inherited two MDS switchs (9500). They work great execpt for one small issue. When editing a zoneset on the second (non-principal) switch everything works nicely, ports on the principal switch can be zoned in the zoneset (via device-alia...

I'm exploring some options to integrate our Cisco MDS IPS-8 and 14/2 iSCSI gear with other iSCSI-capable hardware we own. In order to control target discovery I'm looking into various iSNS server implementations beyond what Cisco includes in SanOS. ...

Grace period on our 9216 enterprise license has expired. What information to I need to give to our sales team about the switch in order to get new license.When I do:switchname# show license host-idLicense hostid: VDH=it doesn't show hostid. Thanks

I have configured PM on my Fabric Manager server and verified that the service is running. However, when I look at the PM reports, all the graphs are blank.The logs contain quite a few of the following errors:WARNING 2006/03/23 12:51:23 PM PMStat d...

Hi all,I hope I am posting this question on the right forum. If not, please let me know.I am planning to purchase a DELL PowerVault 132T Tape Library (using LTO3) to backup data from multiple servers and I want to use fiber channel instead of SCSI.I...

Greetings -I am currently in a project to migrate from a single 9509 to dual 9509 fabrics. 90% of the hosts on this intial fabric are HP-UX hosts. They are configured with persistent FCID's...However, when I add the second fabric to the mix, it wil...

Noticed tmf-queueing command under iscsi interface. I understand what is iSCSI TMF, but I'd like to understand what this command does.Thanks!

After invoking the following command on a 9216i.switch#logging server 192.168.231.99 facility local7I'm left wondering what type of logging will get forwarded to the SysLog server.It seems like there are numerous facilities and only the ability to fo...

Hi I've noticed that CTRL+S key combination makes MDS console access unusable until you reboot the switch. Is there a reason behind? Is there a key combination to recover from this condition? Thanks!