Storage Networking

Hello All,Happy new and hope all good. Any help much appreciated.In short DNCM 11.3(1) root password forgotten and we need to upgrade to 11.5(4)We have DCNM version 11.3(1) and can't discover new mds 9148Ts. We were advised to go to 11.5(4) to discov...

Hi GuysDoes anyone know much about SAN switching on here?I would be interested to know, when we have multiple links in an ISL between 2 SAN switches, how do the switches use the paths? are they load shared/balanced? does the same traffic always pick ...

I have two MDS9220I switches and recently added a third MDS9220I at another site.  While trying to configure a pair of new FCIP links to the new MDS9220I I am running into a strange situation.When I create an initially bring the fcip interfaces up wi...

Hi community, I am a bit stuck and I would appreciate if any of you could help me.I want to get the information equivalent to the command "show flogi database interface XXX" and find for each port if I have any active login but with SNMP, so far I'm ...

DearsI had cisco MDS 9148S SAN switch , i upgrade the device from 8.4.2 to 9.3.2 but i can see from server side Pathes for storgate are not working could plz advise about that ?Bests

Hi We removed the zoneset for a particular vSAN id and then created a new zoneset for that VSAN (saved the changes by copy run start). When we run show zoneset, it's shwoing only the newly created zoneset, but with show run it's showing up both the z...

Mates,I have some hosts that are zoned with a storage array. Historically we were segregating Linux / Solaris or AIX hosts in different VSAN. But as we only have a few hosts now and not a lot of port group in our new storage array, we would like to h...

Just trying to keep this as generic as possible.  I have 2 active zoneset's.  I have 4x storage ports that I would like to share between the 2x zoneset's.  How would I accomplish this?  I do not want to physically separate the storage ports. Thank yo...

We just picked up one of these to serve as the storage switch for our small virtual infrastructure, but finding a way to manage it from a GUI is proving difficult (we’ll do what we need from the CLI as needed but prefer not to). DCNM or the Nexus das...

Installing Linux KVMs on Hyperflex hardware.FI 6332 is connected to the VIC card through QSFP-40G-SR-BD.On the server port of the FI, it looks like 40G, but on the Linux interface it looks like 10G.Why is that?

Hi,Customer to our SAN infra is requesting to alter the FLOGI quiesce timeout from 2000 to 0 ms (current default value = 0 ms when running > 8.3(1) code) on MDS 9710 SAN switches. I did mange to find out that  FLOGI quiesce timeout did change from de...

hellowe have 2 fabrics with vsan 100 and vsan200fabric 12 mds link with 1 ISL linkISL simple port mode trunk with vsan 1 and 100the ISL load have peak at 40%we plan to add more storage array and replication between theses.Can I simply add a second IS...

Hi All,We want to move from our current DC Env. (for example 00-FI) to a new DC (01-FI)Right now, our 00-FI connected to N5K which make the zoning & networking.At the end of the process, we want that all the VMs and hosts will be move to the new FI, ...

 Hi all, I have 3 esxi 8 servers with storage volumes on nfs and some fc library direct assigned to fc card on hosts.I wold like to upgrade the network infrastructure and make vm with assigned tape library free to vmotion between hosts.System is low ...