Storage Networking

on a MDS9124 i receive and error ivalidplatform when attempting to apply a lice file.

I have 2 SAN Fabrics, each with 2x MDS9513 and a few Cisco Blade Center Switches, DS-IBM-FC-K9. I need to decommission some of the blade switches. I need a procedure how to do it step by step. When do I disconnect the ISL's, when do I delete the VSAN...

In Our Infrastructure, We are facing slightly 10% packet loss in Nexus Switch.what are the possible way to identify packet loss in Nexus switches.Kindly provide the needful. 

Hi All,I am new to Cisco Fabric Concepts. In my enviornment i have a F port channel(8 Port Group) created on MDS 9513 switch and this Fport channel is connected to Cisco UCS 6296 FI. The Cisco UCS Blade servers are connected to the Fabric Interconnec...

We have DCNM-SAN 6.2.3 running in our environment.  It is installed on a Windows server on the D: (40GB) and it looks like the D drive is completely full and we are unable to open the DCNM client.  Is there a way to find out if the database is full a...

I am facing difficulty to understand below configuration. Any one can help me to understand this configuration on Nexus 5K. What is swwn? How it is helping to reduce configuration related to Zone.fcalias name FABI-B-P31 vsan 3001    member interface ...

Hello, does anyone know what port configuration needs to be configured on a Nexus switch that is connected to say Brocade switch or any other vendor that supports FCoE. I have created VLAN to VSAN mapping, i assume next step is to create a vfc device...

We are trying to migrate an application away from a single controller to a FAS3210HA we have had in place for a year.  This will help alleviate two SPOF's, (1) single controller and (2) adding another FC SAN Switch.  Also we will get away from the mi...

Hi Experts,I have a problem when add a new ISL to an existing Port Channel config. The ISL port is up state and correctly configured like another ports in port channel.Looks bellow the error:MDS1300M6A# show port-channel summary----------------------...

Hi,    If I am trying to configure VSAN load-balancing for an FCOE trunk. Besides, configuring the load-balance method under the VSAN database do I need to also configure the load-balance method globally on the switch for the port-channel load-balanc...

Hello, We have two 5548UP with 6.0.2-N2 with N2k in FEX, single homed, and FCoE, and we´ve been facing performance issues.I´ve configured the network-qos policy to permit 2158 MTU for the FCoE, and 1500 MTU for default traffic. On the statistics of a...

HiI have DCNM 6.2.1.0. I am logging to DCNM and when I try to open one of the fabrics, I get an error:No Fabric Manager license available for Fabric_XXXXX (where XXXX is the fabric name).Multiple connected users require a fabric license.Use Web Clien...