Storage Networking

For the past few months I have had an issue with slow discovery of my MDS9134's via Fabric Manager (SA).  We have a pair of 9124's at another site that discover and open instantly, however the pair of 9134's, which are local, take about 5-10 minutes ...

Dear Champs,Trust everyone doing good.I have a 2xMDS9509 from primary and 2xMDS9509 from DR which are connected with IBM, Netapp, Oracle and EMC Storages. We have more than 250 connections per switches.We are in the phase of migrating these switches ...

Hello, I have an issue with a proper behaviour of some storage devices within one particular VSAN in a topology where IVR mechanism is enabled and IVR topology is definied manually.  In general: the issue persists in the bus sector of the Cisco MDS t...

Hi, i have two nexus 5020 which is connected to old emc CX4-480 box and recently i got new VNX 5400 for my setup,please do let me know how should i connect this new box to my exiting setup. should i create new zone for this  BOX or i should add it in...

Hi All, i want to connect my cisco 6248 FI to VNX 5400 over FCOE,and i need your help to identify FCOE Module part number for VNX and what cables do i require for connectivity. Regards kshitij

I have a question about DCNM licenses.   My customer has 10 switches (4x MDS9148, 6x MDS9124e). Attached is a screenshot from DCNM. Customer have bought four FM_server_PKG licenses for the first 4 switches and would like to buy similar licenses for 6...

Hi , Im wondering how i should troubleshoot an issue i have. I have a nexus 56128P switch with connected Storage (IBM) and Enodes connected to Lenovo CN4093 switches. I have a port-channel connecting the Lenovo to cisco and have this setup to run FC...

Hi We have 2 Nexus 7010 switches in the DC which currently have a switching VDC and a routing VDC. The routing VDC has nothing patched and is not in use. So the routed links are currently in the fabric VDC also. I want to set this up properly. I have...

Hi Folks, I am going through a problem with connectivity between our server and NetApp storage. Server is writing data on storage drive. Common connectivity is normal between these but when application team is storing the data on storage disk it tak...

Hi Guys, Until now i used to know one topology - 2 FIs , each one connected to his own N5K . Now, we need to build from scratch an environment with 2 FIs, but only one N5K . I need some help to understand what I need to do . I can't find myself :/ . ...

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