Storage Networking

Hi. I really need a help urgently. I tried to install new licenses on 2 switches and i successfully installed one of the switch. here is the problem  i did exactly same procedures on other switch. 1. during the installation - i got this massege "serv...

I only see MDS 9000 downloads from 2013 on Cisco.com, which I am pretty won't include the 9396S and probably not the 9148S either. Anyone have stencils for those products? Regards.

Hello All,I am new to multicast traffic and need help with configuration. With virtualization (VMware) and hyper-converged appliances (vSAN, vMotion, MGMT, VM'’s), there is a strict network configuration guide. For the most part I have everything set...

Does MDS 9710 support FIP Snooping Bridge?

Hi, we are using UCS and all the blades are san-booting from the netapps. I had to change the boot policy on the template to make them boot from the onboard FC ports instead of the CNAs on the Netapp. the boot policy was modified and when i applied i...

Hello to everyone I hope you can help me with my situation, the scenario is the following:  We have 4 switches, 2 MDS9509 and 2 MDS9513, there is an ISL from 1 MDS9509 to 1 MDS9513 and the same situation with the other pair. Each of the MDS9509 has a...

Hello, I have a few questions regarding health checks and daily monitoring/best practices. What should I be looking for other than seeing all configured ports up? Is there a way to get performance stats for the 16GB switches? How often should I be ch...

Hi All, Please help a fellow friend. I am currently in the middle of a SAN migration from MDS9513 to the New Cisco SAN Director Switches. Please see (PDF) attached my current SAN infrastructure.  With the current configuration there's a total of ...

Hi Experts, I need an advice why zones (Last changes made on DR site switches) are at DR site switches if i activate zoneset at primary site SAN switches? I've checked but couldn't found any issue which could give me information about root cause. Qu...

I am trying to interconnect a Brocade 300 and a Cisco 5672up.  This is a small SAN environment. (8 ports on the Brocade and 12 ports on the Nexus)  It is native FC ( fibre channel ).  My target is on the Brocade.  There are initiators on both the Nex...

Dear experts, Could you please advise what has replaced this http://www.dcv-labs.labgear.net/ or this https://dcloud.cisco.com/ or Partner learning  practice labs I would like to practice before going to a client site what do we use? Please send m...

Hi,I installed Fabric manager server and trying to discover a fabric.after entering the user and password for the SNMP v3 I am getting SNMP timeout.the user is configured on the switch and "snmp-server host" was created for the fabric manager serveri...