Storage Networking

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?

Hi all, I have 3 9148 and I will connect 2 of them via dark fiber, my question is can I create and kind of type of redundancy for this or any best practices for this type of connection? Thanks. 

Hi all, I have 3 9148, and I'm with the doubt about how I can connect them to have Redundancy. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Hello, I'm very new in Cisco MDS 9124 san switch. Can some one help me to understand this swicth like how to create zone, alise, zone config. (I hv experince in Brocade SAN switches). Also how to enable the NPIV in this switch? if I will enable the ...

looking for a powercli commandlet to get the vhba options(IO Throttle Count). Thanks!

Are you able to create a port-channel on a MDS9148 to increase the banbwidth for storage?  I've Googled around a bit, and it seems like most of the port channel configuration are for switch to switch trunking.  We are looking to create a port-channel...

Hi, we are connecting Nexus 5548UP with Dell Storage over fibre channel ports, the port status is showing "link not failed or Not connected" when I put the speed 8Gb, but when the speed mode is auto it sets the speed to 4gb and the ;ink status is com...

Hi buddies. I have a problem with two MDS swithes. One of that is a Cisco MDS 9148 (NX-OS 6.2) another one is a Cisco MDS 9124e (NX-OS 5.2) in HP Blade systam C3000.  When i try to add new aliases system dont show it in "show device-alias database". ...

Hello everybody, I was wondering what you see in the field as the oversubscription ratio for the number of UCS server per ISL going from the fabric interconnect to the next SAN switch. In the current world of virtual machines we often see dozens of ...

I have a Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Switch Appliance running version 5.2(1)SP1(7.1) which I want to Integrate with Microsoft HyperV. I gone through the setup dialog. However the vsa is not accepting any commands for the HyperV integration:DC-N1K-VSA-01...