Storage Networking

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 ...

 I have reset the 9148 SAN swithc back to factory defaults, when I try to enable the FC ports I get: no Enabled FC ports.License looks correct, 32 ports enabledany other ideas?

 Hi,I'm trying to setup the LDAP Server but not having much success. .I took some screen snapshot from our MDS 9513 Ficon Directors and MDS 9513 Fibre Channel Directors (below), the first entry below is our MDS 9513 Ficon Directors used by our Mainfr...

Device is not powering up.  Blinks really quick "system booting" at the same time as yellow led under "eSATA" and fan starts for about half a second and powers off real quick after repeats this cycle.  I just bought this used and would love to figure...

HelloWe have a Cisco MDS-9124 FC Fibre Switch and some 3th-pard SFP Transceiver.The MDS now show that these SFP Transceivers are unsupported an the port shows as failed.I found in Google that there should be a hidden command line interface command th...

Sorry,i'm a jr IT and i have to replace an mds cisco 9124 with another mds cisco 9148. How can i do this??

Can i connect to mds9000 family with putty an ethernet cable and the default ipv4 (if exists)?

Does anyone know how to create a cisco zoneset that is sorted by zone name by default?  I've been a SAN admin for many years and one thing I've learned is that if I get waken up at 2:00 in the morning on a "can't see my storage issue" the last thing ...

The DEBUG message like this:249) Event:E_DEBUG, length:57, at 777747 usecs after Fri Feb  6 11:13:39 2015    [825307441]  21:00:00:24:ff:50:48:da recvd DU_OFFLINE on vsan 20250) Event:E_DEBUG, length:57, at 391774 usecs after Fri Feb  6 11:09:26 2015...

Good afternoon,I am working on replacing our existing Brocade FC switches with MDS 9148. The MDS switches will connect to a HP C7000 chassis using the Brocade fiber channel interconnects (HP B-series 8/12c SAN Switch BladeSystem c-Class). Today the i...