Storage Networking

Hi All, Can someone help me calculating the Link utilization of the Cisco interfaces . We have two Data centers joinded by  Dark Fibre services . The connections are going from Cisco SAN ports in the form for Port channels(3 Interfaces) to the other...

Hi all, We are experiencing slowness in our storage network (higher latency). I have checked the network and there is a visible issue on the switches. There is a lot of RX_WT_AVG_B2B_ZERO errors on the edge links and the uplink also. edgeswitch#s...

Hello All!        I just had a quick question regarding the upgrade procedures for migrating from a SUP2 to a SUP2A in the MDS 9509 chassis.  The procedures seem very straightforward (we have already staged the SUP2As with the identical version of NX...

Dear Everyone,       We connect UCS Rack Mount Server's MLOM card to Nexus 5672 using FCoE.When we check fabric login in Nexus switch,we cannot found fabric login from server side.When we use "show interface vfc1 trunk vsan 100", it display "waiting ...

We have a set of MDS's that were configured many moons ago using the GUI software so therefore everything inside the CLI configuration is just a lot of pwwn values. I have added both device-alias's and fcalias's in the MDS config and still so not see...

Hi All Distinguished Members , I am working on on Data Center Project on Storage Arrays , but recently i have received a Project for Fabric Services to be migrated from Brocade to Cisco . 1. Brocade to Cisco 2. McData to Cisco I have never done th...

One of the two interfaces on stuck at init and never comes up switch is MDS9250i running  6.2(15) with 10G SFPs.  IPStorage1/1 init x.x.x.x/25 10 Gbps 2300IPStorage1/2 up x.x.x.x/25 10 Gbps 2300 have tried restting the port and reloading the module...

Hi All, Using 4 FC ports on RPA and 4 FC ports of Xtremio Array , we have to connect both of these to Fabric Interconnect. Question how to do zoning ? Infrastructure :- 1. RPA is EMC Product . (It can act as both Host and target) 2. XtremIO is EMC...

Can the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1225 be configured as an iSCSI storage adapters in VMware 6.0 Currently the VIC 1225 is only listed as FCoE storage adapters and the switch and storage don't support FCoE (bummer). I know it does support "boot...

I had below configurations at my Cisco switches: 1. Cisco switch 1:vsan 1 and vsan9 2. Cisco switch 2:vsan 1 and vsan9 Vsan1 of switch1, operation of all ports:notrunk,  vsan9 of switch1, operation:trunk, the port is trunking and connected to switch2...