Storage Networking

before ACI, we can connect to our netapp storage, after aci project, we have DVS, and we can't access netapp anymore, we believe MTU needs to be adjusted, so should we increase MTU or decrease MTU and how much will be sufficient?

Hi,I would like to know, if there is anyway either through switch CLI or SNMP to turn-on/turn-off the Nexus 5010/5020 PSU's ?  Besides this, I found that there are five different admin-status for the PSUs of Nexus 5010/5020 (SNMP OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9....

Hello all,Myself Arijit.I have two nexus 5020 in the network where all the server is connectedServers have 4 cna ports out of tose two ports are going to nexus 1 and member of vsan xxx  and two are going to nexus 2 and member of vsan yyy.Nexus 1 and ...

Hello - I have a couple quick questions on our VMware / SAN environment.   We're currently running a two VMware host servers (both with 20 gig port-channeled) into a WS-C3850-24XS switch stack.   We also have our SAN nodes connected to this switch st...

Hi Guys,   I wanted to update nexus 5k (5596UP) with latest IOS version, I checked on Cisco.com  7.1(4)N1(1) recommended version is available but as per cisco document it will not support to Cisco MDS 8Gb Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem.   ...

Hi I need a switch that supports FC, FCoE and iSCSI traffic. The switch that has been suggested to us is Cisco Nexus 5548UP.I have the following queries regarding this switch: 1)       At our end, I have AMS 2100 Hitachi Storage which has iSCSI & FC ...

Hi,We would like to create FC port channels between our UCS FI's and MDS9250 switches.At the moment we have 2 separate 8Gbps links to the FI's.Are there any disadvantages or reasons to NOT do this?Is it a best practice?Thanks.

Hello,   I am working on a data center environment in which we have a SAN network consisted of two MDS9506 and two MDS9250i switches.    We want to monitor the network and collect data because we have seen slow data transfers between end nodes.   I h...

I have one nexus 5k switch, which is connected to the FI, in my 5k switch, I have E1/11, fcoe vlan 300, connect to FI portX,  I have fc1/28 connect to FI port y, fc2/3 connect to storage target, now in show cdp neighbor, I can't find port x and port ...

20-Sep-2012 16:51 (in response to feisalb) IBM V7000 with Nexus 5548UP and Nexus 4000 Design/implemetation guideHi GuysI have a question in regards to connecting IBM v7000 directly to Nexus5548.CAN WE DO THIS?Our current setup is IBM v7000 -> MDS 912...

Can I get some insight on the control and data plane (roles, responsibilities, limits) on the Cisco MDS products? Is there any documentation that I can refer to?   Thanks, Ram.

How can In-Service Software Upgrade be nondisruptive if switches have no redundancy for control plane or data plane? Documentation states that MDS 9148 (or MDS 9396) support nondisruptive ISSU process and it also states that fabric switches have a si...