Storage Networking

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...

Brocade 5480 is a blade switch.Blade switch would needed to be exist as it  will serve blade servers and will interconnect to MDS switch. Port 0 to 15 are internal ports to enclosure and 16 to 23 are external ports to Servers, Tape library and EVA.Wh...

Hello, I have a customer that has a Hitachi array, trying to connect via iSCSI through a 3850 to their server.   If they use Twinax throughout (SFP-10GBase-CX1) the connection is good (or at least "works") but the HDS array complains about the SFP be...

I noticed the other day some paths down on our datastores in vcenter. So I look around and check the zone and it looks fine. The zone is active and in the correct vsan. Both devices are logged in and communicating with other devices no issues. The ho...