I have not found any way to define a device alias with Fabric Manager. It is easy to do with CLI but I have to type the pWWN. It seems like it should be easy to do with the GUI.What am I missing?
Hi Tim,I remember seeing a document about the compression being less effective at speeds beyond 45Mb/s from Cisco somewhere. Can you point to the link? Tx!
hiseems Fabric and device manager storessome configuration datas on MDS that are not stored in switch's configuration files (sho conf)like name of connection or name on ports ???is it true ?where can i get documents explaining that and which datas ar...
I am trying to start MDS performance manager on a windows 2000 server and I keep getting the following error:could not start cisco mds performance managerAny ideas?
An EMC CX700 currently has a VSAN for FC host traffic to 4 ports on a CX700, and another VSAN for iSCSI host traffic to 2 different ports on the same CX700. The switch is an MDS 9509 running 2.0.3 code and the required license to run IVR. The optimal...
Has anyone successfully connected iSCSI from their 5428-2 routers to a Win2000/2003 server? I can setup iSCSI, but can not get Win server to see anything.
Hi - I have an active FCIP pipe that is running without compression and write acceleration. I'd like to experiment with these features. How should I go about activating these features. Do I need to down the fcip2 interface on both 9216i first or c...
Following the instructions in both the config guide and troubleshooting guide to configure the FCIP profile and interface, my fcip2 interface status is stuck at initializing. Looking in FM events tab, I can see that the 9216i's are cycling between t...
I'm looking at upgrading this box and have two questions:1. Are the cards hot pluggable?2. I currently have other cards in the box and wondered if there is a sequence they need to be installed? Currently there are (2) 32 port 1 GB cards and a 16 p...
How will FSPF counts path weight in port chanal case? For example - there is two fisical lincks with different speeds - 2 and 1 gig. What fspf count i'll have?
Hello, I want to ask, for what performance buffers are used about?Are they extensions of the BB_Credits ?I used the following command for reference:switch(config-if)# switchport fcrxbbcreditperformance-buffers xxThank you and regards,Jordan
Hi ,Have somebody had problems with this issue? When I create IVR zone with the Wizard in the Fabric Manager, eventhough I have two(2) transit VSANs between the boxes it does not let me choose both of them . After i choose one of them and then look ...
