Storage Networking

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 ...

Cisco Initial configuration is getting struck at the Loader. Whats the root cause for this issue /what steps can be taken to resolve it.? Manual says If the switch boots to the loader> or switch(boot) prompts, contact your storage vendor support orga...

Hi I have a 4 of Cisco Switches, 2 per site. The customer I'm working with uses LDAPs which, for everything else we've configured (vCenter, Storage etc) requires us to import the AD Certificate in to to to the local certificate store.  I can't find a...

I'm trying to connect a new Poweredge R650 server to my MDS 9148S and not getting HBA logins.  I've built a ton of Poweredges on the same fabric and never had an issue, but it dawned on me that they have all been R640s or older with 16Gb/s FC cards. ...

Hello,After applying port activation with a traditional license, does the Nexus MDS 9148 Switch require a reboot? I did not see anything about a reboot in the documentation.Thank you.

Hiwe have 4 data centres and I have been tasked with configuring zoning on our Nexus 9k's and 5k,s I have done this before and had no issues but now we have new vsans created and these are for the new storage volumes is it possible to have x2 active ...

Hi all,I have a design question related to  FCoE and FC scalability. The idea is to provide additional FC and FCoE capable ports in the network on new 9318yx-fx switches.As per documentation, we can run additional switches in NPV mode and they can pr...