Storage Networking

Hello-I inherited a Cisco Hyperflex cluster that has 3 nodes. I was left the login/passwords and honestly no matter what combinations I use I cannot login. My goal is to eventually upgrade the ESXi's to 6.7U3. But it would be nice to access the Hyper...

Hello dear community members, We have two switches Nexus 3064-X and we would like to build a new iSCSI SAN. Expected iSCSI storage performance is 30 Gig iSCSI-A + 30 Gig iSCSI-BMy questions:1) can Nexus 3064-X handle such workload?2) in general, what...

Hello , I have a Customer that wants to enable encryption for a production cluster but he wants to understand what will be the impact of enabling the feature on exciting date on the cluster. RegardsAmr

Hi Team We are busy integrating our Cisco MDS SAN Switches ( fw 6.2(3) )  with BPPM . For this we need to send snmp traps to BPPM server . Is there a way we can manually send traps  ( as a test  ) from the Cisco MDS cli  ?? Appreciate your quick ...

Hello Guys, I'm trying to find out  how I list all the events/modifications  applied on a zoneset?Any hint?I had a look on cisco DNCM, and directly via CLI on one of the switches, cannot find the command Thank you

We recently collapsed our vmware PSC into the vcenter and now the hyperflex manager no longer works. How do I point the hyperflex manager to the new PSC location?

trivial question:Customer does a show interface fc x/y and as a result sees 2 complete different pwwn prefix, eg.Port WWN is 50:03:a9:c7:a4:3c:d0:47AndPort WWN is 20:2f:00:3a:9c:7a:43:20Can it be, that the device doing a flogi, changes the pwwn ? 

Hey Guys! Im looking for information on the Cisco 9148T MDS switches for a client.  They purchased the default 24-port configuration on the 48-port fixed configuration.  I want to just confirm that out of the 48-ports available, the ports that are ac...

Hello Experts, I have a query related to interoperability between Cisco Nexus 5548UP and Brocade 6505 (Fabric OS version is v8.0.2c). My requirement is to connect Brocade FC switch to Nexus 5548UP and use Nexus to convert FC to FCOE. DC1 Storage --- ...

Hello,We have MDS 9706 Supervisor-1 (Core) with 9148T (Edge). This is new installation.Now 9706 running on 8.2(1) and 9148T on 8.3(1).We going to install the latest recommended version, before put it into production. According to this article recomen...

im trying to use the dcnm 11 san rest api to create zones, but i cant find a way to provide a name for zone. how do i do that? the "CONNECT...." isnt good for me, i must stand with my organization convention

Hello,I'm configuring SNMPv3 on MDS devices. I need help on how to associate Access List with SNMPv3 user.I managed to do it on Nexus switches as shown bellow.username xxxx role network-operatorsnmp-server user xxxx network-operator auth sha yyyy pri...

We have Cisco and brocade switches ISL'd. We know that on Cisco DCNM , we see the WWNs of F-ports connected on the ISL'd brocade switches. Is there a Cisco switch command to find WWN/s connected on F ports of ISL'd Brocade switch?

Hi guys,  When I look into the MDS installation guide, there's a paragraph about SFP+ Average power indicated as below. In this charts, for the row DS-SFP-FC16G-SW, What does "Min 7,8" column means ? Is it typo ? How do I use this chart to calculate ...

This is regarding Cisco MDS Enhanced zoning mode. what is the best way to determine whether a MDS switch is capable of enhanced zoning mode operation, especially in a large fabric. Are there any useful commands that we can use.   Many thanks Chokka V...