Storage Networking

Hello,My config is as follows eva3000-mds9216i-fcip-3750-1gbit link-3750-fcip-mds9216i-eva3000.I want to make 2 virtual fabric's making zone's with each 2 legs of the eva300 on both sides in a zone together with a server.I made a zone test with the h...

We are currently setting up our fabric. We have a STK 9500 storage device that we are trying to bring into the fabric. The storage device is currently a "direct attach" deivice and is seetup as "loop". I have attached a fiber cable from the storag...

HiI am looking into the in-order guarantee feature.How does this feature work within the fabric ?If traffic is rerouted for some reason, how can all the switches in the fabric be aware that the route has changed, and in some circumstances be able to ...

HiWhen you change the fcdomain id, and issue a fcdomain restart, the traffic should not be affected according to the documentation.I am not aware of any other way to assign FCID`s than through FLOGI. How can the fabric reassign FCID`s without doing a...

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...

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 ...