Storage Networking

There is one N5K-C5596 within N55-M16UP       2 x N55-8P-SSK9 licenses because  needed 16 port (combination of FC/FCOE). Request to  you guys help how to add the license so that to be able to use 16 port as fc/fcoe.  As already paid for 2 x 8 port li...

We have 2 Cisco 9396 FC switches. We want to create one fabric across both switches and have the ability to zones across both switches.  What steps would we follow to accomplish this?

We are planning on installing SAN switch MDS 9250i  . Does MDS 9250i support Storage Media Encryption ?

Hello All. We recently purchased four MDS 9148’s to replace our old Brocade 5100’s. Our current plan is to go 2 + 2 setup where 2 are Fabric A and the other 2 are Fabric B. We have two Dell Compellent storage arrays, one on each pair, we also have tw...

I am trying to connect a  SAN switch to a storage but the  Switch is not recognizing the SFP from storage. Are there any compatiility issues? Details of the storage SFP: Model Cisco Tyco Model of Switch: MDS9148

Hi All, I need your help!! this is my first time i am configuring Cisco UCS in infra and don't have in-depth knowledge about it.I am trying to make port-channel between Cisco UCS & Brocade FC SAN switch, FC ports are going into error-disable mode wh...

    I have an NSS-324 configured for RAID 5 (with data) and was having some slowness issues, so I shut it down and rebooted it, but when it comes back up it asks to configure the RAID.  It already was configured so i am not sure where to go from here...

I am setting up FCOE on the N5K and the server team is asking if we can assign 2 different VSANS on the same interface.  So I have a single VFC bound to an interface, now can I assign 2 differen vsans to that vfc?

Hi, I have two CISCO MDS 9148 switches, Now i want to make it as redundant switches. For that configured with below settings on SW01: created vsan(300), Assign the interface fc1/1 to vsan. created zone(serverzone), added pwwn number of server1_cont...

After more than one year of running without problems, customer suddenly sees this command failing ? any known defect ? (SAN of MDS and N5k) SWS-01# copy running-config startup-config fabric This will save the running configuration on all switches in ...

HELLO guys, I have one question regarding configure dell storage with Cisco MDS 9500 , that I plan to configure NPIV from dell storage and configure F port from MDS , but unfortunately the NPIV port that was created from storage not come up with MDS...