Storage Networking

Hello, At our DR site we have not purchased a Director Class switch for our environment. Instead, we have purchased two pairs(4) of MDS 9148s for our arrays, servers, data domain, etc. The configuration would be two fabrics, 1 pair for VSAN 100 fabr...

Hi I have cisco MDS 9509 ("Supervisor/Fabric-2") running version  version 3.3(5b) In order to ugrade the OS to 4.2.9 i had replaced existing IP Storage Services Module DS-X9308-SMIP has been repalced with 4x1GE IPS, 18x1/2/4Gbps FC Module  DS-X9304-1...

I have a 9216i’s (nxos 4.2) and a 6120 (ucs 2.0) that I am trying to configure a san-port-channel to port-channel with and I can’t get it working. The FC (F-NP) links work when they are not in a po, but when I try to form a port-channel I get “invali...

Hi , My Name is Bhavesh. I have installed the new Cisco  UCS CPS 2ru k9 server and after getting the power on it shows please insert the localhost loging username and password. Any one can help me to get the Localhost loging credentials.

Please, I wonder if there is any performance problem, if I have MDS devices with different versions of NXOS. If one MDS9513 with version 6.2. (13a) and MDS9506 with version 5.2 (8), this equipment is the same fabric.

Hi Experts, I am confusing with SAN A and SAN B separation. If i adding a link between SAN A SAN B, is there have any potentially problem? like the attachment. From my opinion, the SAN A SAN B are merged together and only need configuring zoning o...

Hi All, Please let us help how to configure the HA in 9148S SAN switch in Active - Active mode. Thank You Anil Kumar

Hi all, When would I have to use, npv or npiv in a network ? I actually have 3 9148 devices, with only one vsan (vsan 100) configured, do I have to use nvp or npiv? thanks.

Hi all, I have a 9148s, and I only have 12 ports with license, and I got the lic. files, my question is how do I add the new files for the rest of the ports. thanks. 

Hello folks, We have a customer that bought a Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch with its 8 licensed ports 4Gbps Fibre Channel-SW SFP transceivers through the SKU DS-C9124AP-K9. We added to the switch additional (supposed) 16 ports and licenses ...

Is there any way to show the 24 hr stats for Rx/Tx of the switch?  I only see option for device, ISL?  I have DCNM 6.2 and FM installed.  Do I need to "create flows" under performance?