Storage Networking

When I try using plink to execute switchport description commands I am having a problem   interface fc1/9 ; switchport description Server_1 ;interface fc1/10 ;switchport description Server_2 ;EXIT   results in the port description for fc1/9 being cha...

Hello! Im trying to connect MDS 9148 to existing fabric. I have an issue with one of vsan (31). All other vsan work fine. Ports for vsan 31 are in Isolated state. I see a reason of this behavior: Isolation due to domain not allowed. But I don't under...

Hello All,   I am booting UCS-B blades from the external storage but 1 blade out of 8 fails. I got it logged to the fabric (as well as the target). Also I have default-zone permit for these VSANs on both fabrics A/B. When I check on the adapter level...

Hi guys, First time poster, just have a couple of questions if anyone has the time and/or inclination. 1. Someone has previously created zones containing both a single hosts plain pwwn and also the alias'd pwwn. I'm pretty it wont but can someone con...

Hi   With SP created 4 vNICs to be used with Microsoft Hyper V and assigned the VLANs. We assigned IP to one of the interfaces, but failed to access the network. Later made the VLAN assigned to the vNIC as native VLAN through the SP, but still failed...

Hi   As of now we are using zoning with single initiator and multiple targets. We have both Dell Compellent and EMC SAN. With Compellent we are using virtual interfaces against each physical ports / wwns and DELL recommended to use all four virtual i...

Hi   We have configured 2 VSAN IDs (the default 1 with FC Port Channel and another one 3830 with FC uplink interface 1/26) with UCS (6248 FI in End Host mode, B 200 M4 blade, NPIV is enabled with MDS 9148S). Still the infra is not in production and u...

We are looking for the normal procedure in associating a service profile to a server / server pool. We created service profile templates and associated with server pool, but it's not creating the SP, so for testing we created a SP from this template ...

Hi   We used to do the zoning the traditional way and not sure whether to go with Enhanced zoning, if we go with enhanced zoning will there be any advantage and also is there any drawback. We have only a few zones (less than 100, used single initiato...

Hi gents, I have a strange issue on on  9718; we installed many 9700 in a datacenter, do redundancy power and supervisor checks, all was fine, ready to migrate... It happends one day all the power supplies on one switch were in alarm. I powered off t...

I seem have found a restriction with SAN Connectivity Policies.  I have a UCS with FC connections to a pair of MDS9100 SAN switches.  Each MDS switch uses a different, non-default vSAN.  Each vSAN has been duplicated on the respective FI, which conne...

Hello There,   Do I need any license for ISL/Merging 2 fabrics. I have a cisco mds9148 . All I can see in the license usage is a port activation license. Do I need to procure any more licenses to merge the fabrics via ISL ? or ISL is possible by defa...

Hello Team From data sheets and WP's, i could see SME is supported only with MDS 9500/9200 series. Why is that? We have MDS 9710 and 9706 switches in which we hope to use SME to encrypt data at rest. The SAN arrays are IBM DS8886 and HPE 3PAR 20850. ...