Storage Networking

Hello,I'm using a HP Tape Storage ( Ultrium 3280). This tape storage has a SAS cable and I want to connect it on my UCS 220 M3..Question : What it the Mini-SAS (SFF-8088) card that is compatible with a UCS 220 M3. i.e have an external SAS port.Regard...

Under what circumstances does this happen and is it being diagnosed ? 

I have entered the world of storage networking this past week and need to get MDS9100's up and running for a Lab EMC VNX. I am very versatile in LAN/WAN and also Nexus, just not storage tasks within the Nexus platform. The MDS seems to be NX-OSish an...

Hi, All. My customer has Cisco MDS 9506. It was connected 4 HP LTO(MSL) ports.There were disconnected a link of signal to HP LTO, and that was reconnected a link after several times(30-60mins).Then MSL tape drives become offline and have to manually ...

Hello, I have question about Nexus 5500 and its LAN Enterprise license.  I had Nexus 5500 with Layer 3 Base  license, N5k was just doing some simple inter vlan routing. Then I decide to connect additional network segment to that switch, and run OSPF....

hi all,by mistake we added a license for port activation on the wrong MDS, is there anyway to move this license to another MDS ??

Has anybody successfully extracted performance data from DCNM-SAN ?Until they pulled the CIM off the fabric switches IBM's TPC was brilliant, however now I cannot get TPC to connect to DCNM-SAN to pull performance data.I tried using PM.BAT to script ...

We have a very small environment. we have a Cisco MDS-9124 FC switch that connects our ESXi servers to our SAN. I have added a new ESXi server to our environment, I have plugged in the FC cable to the switch and the switch person added the new HBA to...

I have Cisco MDS 9509 switches running nx-os 5.2(6a).  I'm behind on the supported version. I need to get to at least 5.2(8f) as of today 2015/08/11. The latest GA is 6.2(13) .  I'm thinking of some version of 6.2 as a target for the switches and DCN...

I have an environment were we have a pair of Nexus 5K's connected (FCoE with VPC) to a NetApp FlexPod. The issue is it's believed that the Nexus 5K's  may be dropping traffic from the NetApp but I can't seem to find any evidence (me or Cisco TAC) to ...