Storage Networking

Resolved! FC Connection Issue After MDS Reboot

Hi All,I get issue with FC connection to MDS after MDS switch down yesterday. The error as below: NexusFCOE# sh int fc1/46fc1/46 is down (Isolation due to port-channel mis-configuration) Hardware is Fibre Channel, SFP is short wave laser w/o OFC (...

Resolved! FCoE boot from UCS B200

HiI am running a test environment consisting of a UCS --(fc)--> MDS --(fc)--> Storage.In an attempt to boot from SAN I see some issues on the MDS. Although I am able to see the flogi from both the server and the storage, and both are zoned correctly...

FCoE initialization issues on 1020 CNA & Nexus 7k

Hi,We recently started using FCoE SANs in our environment. Servers are IBM Server X with the Dual Port 1020 CNA installed. SAN implementation on a Cisco Nexus 7k with an F1-32 port module installed. FCoE is licensed on the module and a storage VDC ha...

Error disabled - bit error rate too high

Hi Guys, I'm trying to connect a Quantum Scalar i40 Tape Library (with HP Tape Drive) to a MDS-9148.Below are the MDS version information:BAMDSPR01# sh versionSoftware BIOS: version 1.0.21 loader: version N/A kickstart: version 6.2(7) sys...

Resolved! Fabric Manager discovery

Hi all,Can anyone tell me how Fabric Manager does its discovery of the SAN fabric and is there a command line equivalent e.g. equivalent to CDP? I need to make a network map of the switch connectivity if possible? thanks Chris

vSphere 4.1 + Cisco P81E + Nexus 5010: VSAN operational state:down

Hi,we have a setup with a nexus 5010 and 2 ucs c200 m2 with p81E CNA. We have configured the nexus with one vsan, 20, and two vfc. Every cna is bound to his own vfc, and we can see the VFC up, but the vsan operational state is down...attached the rel...

MDS running priority

I have an MDS9124 that is connected to an MDS 9124e connected into an HP blade chassis. I notice then when looking at the fc domain status, the 9124e shows as running at priority 2, even though that priority is not configured in the running config....

Resolved! Nexus 5548UP snmp gathering information from FC is not working

Hi all,We have a couple of Nexus 5548UP.Nx-OS = n5000-uk9.7.0.5.N1.1.bin monitoring traffic of FC interfaces was working fine until we upgraded to 7.0.5.N1.1 from 6.0.2.N2.1.We didn't change anything on our Nexus config and on our Centreon monitoring...

VSAN

Hi,I am a little confused about how a servers would decide on which VSAN to route through when there are two VSAN confiured. Considering the following topology where we have VSAN 10 and VSAN 20. MDS1 is configured for VSAN 10. MDS2 is configured for ...

adding Port to the Port Port channel

Need some Help Here: I have two Nexus 5548 connected to each other Via Port san-portchannel. The Members of the Port channel go to VSAN 1 by default. How Can I add my Ports which members of VSAN 200 to the Port Channel. Here is what I have on two ...

DCNM performance

We recently upgraded our DCNM server to 6.3(1) and we've noticed that the server hosting the DCNM application is doing more IOPS than any server in our environment!It seems to be doing 8,000 - 10,000 IOPS constantly.In Windows you can see that postgr...

Resolved! Error disabled - bit error rate too high on MDS switch

I have been trying to perform an NDMP backup between A HP LTO5 Ultrium Tape Library and Netapp with the MDS switch providing the fabric.However, everytime I initiate the job, I experience this problem. Below are some of the outputs on the concerned F...

Resolved! Connect Nexus 5600 and Qlogic

Hi, Have a new DC solution with Nexus 56128 switches running LAN + Native FC.Storage Arrays shall be connected to the Nexus switches via 8G FCCustomer has Dell blade with Qlogic SAN switches, where existing zoning is done. Today these are connected t...

Nexus 5548 - DCNM - SAN Connectivity

I'm having an issue seeing the switch and managing VSAN's and zoning from within DCNM Fabric Manager. Device Manager and Fabric Manger discover the switches, however, Fabric Manager won't let me configure anything. When I try to edit the local zon...

Cisco Fabric Manager 5.0.7

Dear Team!I have software Cisco Fabric Manager 4.2a (in SAN management server based on Windows Server 2003) Standalone version, which managed our existing fabrics (we have 2) now. In case of OS "Windows 2003 server" going to End of Life/Support, we s...

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Resolved! FC Connection Issue After MDS Reboot

Resolved! FCoE boot from UCS B200

FCoE initialization issues on 1020 CNA & Nexus 7k

Error disabled - bit error rate too high

Resolved! Fabric Manager discovery

vSphere 4.1 + Cisco P81E + Nexus 5010: VSAN operational state:down

MDS running priority

Resolved! Nexus 5548UP snmp gathering information from FC is not working

VSAN

adding Port to the Port Port channel

DCNM performance

Resolved! Error disabled - bit error rate too high on MDS switch

Resolved! Connect Nexus 5600 and Qlogic

Nexus 5548 - DCNM - SAN Connectivity

Cisco Fabric Manager 5.0.7

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