Folks, I am thinking about buying 2 9210 MDS series switches for home lab. I checked the list price on them and it is around $14,000 each.I wanted to find out if i could use all the features that this switch has to over (IVR, Read-only Zones...
Folks, I am thinking about buying 2 9210 MDS series switches for home lab. I checked the list price on them and it is around $14,000 each.I wanted to find out if i could use all the features that this switch has to over (IVR, Read-only Zones...
Hi, when I want to use RSPAN, do I need dedicated VSAN for it ? Or VSAN 1 will do it ?I understand that dedicated VSAN is better so there is no unnecessary traffic, but is it needed ? And if yes, where is it documented ? I didn't find it in configura...
Folks, I am slightly confussed about the fabic login procedure. Does someone have a good link that explains the fabric login process in great detail.Is FLOGI the first step followed by PLOGI?Thanks
Folks, If all the ports in a Vsan are shutdown would the Vsan would still be up?i am trying to creat an analogy between vlan and vsan.Thanks
Folks, Is FC analyser and fabric analyser in MDS series switches the same thing. I am confussed. Also,Does the FC analyser has a Test based ( Etherreal) and GUI based interface? has anyone installed the GUI interface? which one is better?
Is it possible to get some iops statistics out of the mds?MRTG is running fine, based on troughput(mb/s). It would be nice if can compare it against eachother.can I use a certain MIBS IOD?
HI, MDS9509, supervisor in slot 5 is hw version 5.2 and in 6 is 4.1 (or 4.0?)version. When switch is rebooted, system led lights orabge on both supervisors, if I look at device manager, the only orange is active at slot 6 (as supposed to be) so devic...
Documentation says to use clear logging to clear syslog. Syntax isclear logging {logfile | nvram}but switch2# clear logging ? session Clear logging sessionswitch2# clear logging sessionCFS distribution is not enabled for loggingWhat is wrong ? I am...
Dear All,I am new to storage network. I would like to setup a simple storage replication network for testing as follows:HDS9570V <-(fiber channel)->MDS9xxx<-(fiber,IP)->MDS9xxx<-(fiber channel)->HDS9570VMay I know what minimum MDS series I can use? W...
We tried to do a failover to test the HA environment for the upcoming upgrade to 2.0(1b), only with no succes. We're currently running on 1.2(1b) and want to upgrade non-disruptively to the new firmware.can anybody tell me what went wrong? Thanks in ...
Hi All,In SAN storage, many server connect to a SAN storage for data transaction, so that will create bottleneck in the storage because even if the storage connect more fiber to the SAN switch, like spanning-tree in switching network,just one link up...
I have a MDS 9140 that I can't access with Fabric Manager or Device Manager with SNMP v3. I could get in with this method last week. I can telnet in and use SNMP v2 using the community strings. When I try to use Device Manager I get a message sayi...
Folks, Can i tie more than 1 FCIP tunnel to a Gigabit ethernet interface. I was reading documentation and if i remeber correctly, it mentioned about support for upto 3 tunnels over a gigabit ethernet interface, not sure if i can attach more tha...
This is output from configuring qos on clean box (9509). I don't understand why last command fails.`qos class-map class_for_all_frames match-any``match any`Operation in progress. Please check class-map parameters`qos policy-map policyHigh``class clas...
Folks, I recently purchased a SN5420 router. I have a few questions:1) can i use the ethernet interface to connect the router to a WIN2k server using iscsi drivers??2) I want a cheap FC capable array so that i can test the iscsi to FC conver...
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