Storage Networking

why is the zoining command not available on the cisco 5548up nx-os. what can be the reason, the software version ? n5548(config)# sh run | i featurefeature fcoefeature npv software release : n5000-uk9.5.2.1.N1.4.binRole: san-admin  Description: Prede...

Hello, Colleagues! Please give me some advice for the problem that I currently have.I am trying to deploy Cisco Nexus 1000v in our infrastructure.Our infrastructure includes 5 ESXi 5.1 hosts in production and 2 hosts in test segments. All the hosts a...

Hi all,I have a few Brocade switches and I am looking for a tool that does packet capture for fiber channel traffic, similar to Wireshark for IP traffic. Has anyone used one or recommend one ? or Can Wireshark capture and decode fiber channel traffic...

Dear I need to know how can i connect tape drive OR tape library TO Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Mount Server ?how the connection done between this component and what the type of connection ? AS I have  have HP Server now having Symantec backup exec Solut...

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 ...