Storage Networking

Hi,We recently started using the cisco nexus 5000 switch.Previosuly we were using brocade switch.In order to monitor the throughput on the switch ports, we used the command >perfportshowoutput:  0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   1...

I am new to MDS but very experienced with Brocade.  There's a Brocade cli command I love and trying to see if there's an equivalent command on NX-OS 4.1(3a).   The Brocade command is "zone --validate".  That would return all the zone / aliases with a...

Hi All,   I created a Etherchannel on 5672 with two interfaces in them for upstream to our new Nexus c93180 for FCoE. But 5672 does not bind Etherchannel into the int vfc 93. The error says: "ERROR: fcoe_mgr: VFC cannot be bound to Port Channel as it...

On Friday we rebooted a server and it did not get it's drives back. The port shows up as red in DM. The only way to get the prot active was to reboot the SAN switch, then it worked fine. Today a different sever was rebooted and the same symptom happe...

Hello Folks,I'm looking for Visio stencils for the below products and couldn't find it in https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/visio-stencil-listing.html Products that I need Visio stencils are:N9K-C9364N9K-C9348GC-FXPCisco MDS switches: C9396S-K9C...

Is anyone aware of any good forums for candidates pursuing the CCIE storage?

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...