Storage Networking

I understand that the best practice would be 1 initiator --> 1 targets, or 2 targets. What if zones include 2 initiators and 1 target or 2 initiators and 2 targets, what adverse results these zones could cause? We have these, but it doesn't seem caus...

Hello , we have deployed new environment of Connectrix MDS 9148 switches . How can we check the remote connectivity of MDS Switches ? Thanks Sushan Dutta

Hi, Is Brocade 7840 compatible to Nexus 5548UP ?  I have a storage device connected below Brocade 7840. This will be an FC traffic from storage device to Brocade. Brocade will do the FC to IP conversion and forward the traffic to Nexus via VLAN. (T...

I have never done this before, nor would I ever think of it but here is what needs to be done and the questions I have. I have a single VMware Cluster with 4 Hosts. All hosts have 2 x 2 port HBAs that connect to a pair of MDS 9100's. We have a VNX 5...

Our netapp filer 3140 was getting swamped with requests from our Cisco UCS during storage vmotion of snap deletions.Still troubleshooting.  But one thing found along the way the netapp had been sending pause frame to the 10Gbps interfaceson the Nexus...

HI Guys ,  I Need your Assistance for file system storage solutions for Medium business , I have a new Project in our company and we need  for  file system storage solutions and we not have any info from Managers , I will Use UCS C220 M4 as a Server...

HI Guys, We are in situation where half of our infrastructure support FCOE and half not so. We Want to build Nexus 7k Storage VDC and connect the storage with Fiber Channel. but few Nexus 2k 2232TM-10GE does not support FCoE , so we want end hosts c...

I realize this is a lot of "crud" to chew on. so many thanks in advance to those who take the time to review it and hopefully some others will get the benefit of my config. I will update this post with the final config when im done. if you don't see ...

We are unable to find any clues as to what this error message is indicating. It was posted to the log right as we saw traffic pause for a short time and then resume. We do not see any other log entries to indicate any clues as to what happened. Any...

   Hi All,Anyone seen this error when get tech-support logs????Switch#show tech-support details----show tech-support details----Error creating file /volatile/vsh_cmdlist_1 err 13Thanks,Wellington       Hi All,A alternative solution was executed by re...

There is already a zoneset which has one storage and a number of hosts. Now, we added one more different type storage with a different set of hosts. If I understand correctly, two zoneset cannot be activated at the same time, so, without using VSAN, ...