Storage Networking

We currently are getting a message everyday for the call home that the Fabric Manager is grace period is going to expire in XX number of days. Is there any way to turn this alert off? This is annoying as we like the call home feature, but hate the ...

HiI'll soon have a FC fabric that will include both McData and Cisco MDS 9216 switches. These switches will be interconnected. Is there one tool that I can use to manage the whole, mixed fabric, or must I use the Cisco tool to manage the 9216, and ...

Hi Does anyone know how to get detailed MDS SNMP MIB OID information (I am after inventory / performance information). When looking at the MIB documentation / IEFT standard I can get an OID but it does not work against the MDS 9216. e.g. MIB - OID -...

Has anyone got a 5428 connected to a Thunder 9570. I have configured luns, etc on the HDS, but the cisco does not seem to discover any devices. I have set the ports to 2G, F-types.thanksDarren

Wondering if anyone's seen this one. 5420, 2.1.2 running. Any initiator I try to connect -- Cisco (Windows and Linux), MS, Novell, old versions, new versions, -- is rejected with an "unsupported version" reason. Ethereal trace shows an error 0205 and...

I'm using the Ciso iScsi drivers with a 5428-2 connected to an IBM ESS through Brocade FC switches. I don't the see the storage when I scan for Disk's. Here's what the ISCSI driver status displays:Driver Version 3.1.2 for Win 2000 May 27 2003 12:17:...

Are there any holddown timers to guard against "brown" failures? For example, if an HBA goes bad and does 2000 FLOGI's within a couple of seconds, can the switch shut down that port for a specified length of time?

I downloaded the new code from the website, but I was looking for the release notes of this code. Can you please provide a link for the release notes? Also will this release take care of the nag message for Fabric Manager Server license being expir...

We have a storage area network (SAN) at one location and another SAN in another location separated by 2KM.We are going to be pushing traffic at stm1 speeds. What Cisco solutions do we have?

helloare they any specials hints to propaged new zone after creation customer created new zone ,activate itbut there is not see on other switchs in the fabricin same Vsan ?thanks for any adviceJYP

I have a IBM ESS F20 with 6 fibre connections to 2 Brocade switches. The wwn is the same on one switch for the 3 connections to the ESS and I can not configure the persistent FCID for the 3 connections with one wwn. Will it work to use the wwpn inste...

Looking for some data on storage replication between data centers connected via VPN. VPN is based on 7206VXR/IOS w/ DS-3 access. DS3 endpoints are the same Tier1 provider. Distance is Miami to/from Chicago.Replication fo 20Gb SQL Database (initiall...

I am new to this product and trying to configure our 5248 router,I saw devices through "show devices" on 5248,I configured router instance, scsi target, access list, But on the 5248 router, I saw following errors:No server found to handle connection ...

NPC New ComerI am in the process of extending my existing SAN to a new location. I have 6500 running native IOS at my two SAN locations. Is it nessary to have a SFM when connecting the Carrier GIGe handoff to my 6500?Also another connection from thi...

Hi,Could any one please send me a list of cisco supported storage array devices from HP, EMC and HDS.I've started to read on cisco storage solutions, and according to my understanding these are the different components of iSCSI solution:1. iSCSI driv...