Storage Networking

Hello all,When looking at the default qos policies applied on N5600, when you enable FCOE, FC traffic is getting 50% bandwidth reservation (with no drop policy) versus 50% default (ethernet) traffic.But on a 10GE CNA, this would mean only 5 Gbps for ...

Hello All I would like to understand what does the following parameter mean when the command "show interface fcx/y transceiver details" is executed.Note: The SFP type is a SFP+ (DS-SFP-FC8G-SW) Transmission medium is multimode laser with 62.5 um aper...

I am looking for some advice or a best practice guide on how to connect a Dell Equallogic array directly into a pair of 6296 FI's.  The ecologic array has 2 10 Gig ports per controller so I am thinking it should be cabled with 1 port to each FI on ea...

Any idea can we can cisco mds 9250i SFP-10G-SR on cisco old generation network switches having SFP port for IP functionality.   

is there any way to increase forwarding bandwidth from 10Gbps to 16Gbps or more at this model cisco ws-c2960c-8tcs.  

Hi All, I have an scenario which is attached in  attachment  Now my question is below acc. to scenario. My question is why we can't make VFC over VPC. when i did VFC over VPC it's not coming UP. WHy we have to run another link for FCoE traffic like e...

Hi When i try and open the cisco dcnm san java app it asks me to run the application comes up with 'more information' on the bottom left hand cornerwhich if i open it says 'the applications associated file jlnp does not have an associated signature' ...

Hi All Can i deploy VPC on storage traffic(FCoE)?  If not, why? Kindly help

I have a customer having  problems with a IBM Power 8 VIOS system which is connected with native FC to a N5k; they see the following error message: VIOS1: Oct  9 10:48:22 fscsi4     T FCP_ERR12           Nameserver GID_PN or GPN_ID failed by adapter ...

Hi all,Years ago we bought Nexus Switches and installed 8 Port Storage Licenses on each. Now we need some more FC ports on two of those switches.We bought 2 licences (N55-8P-SSK9=) and I was able to get the license files without any problem and uploa...

Good morning,today I see that DCNM-SAN gave an error while distributing the device-alias database through the fabric. Result: FailureReason: Another device-alias already present with the same pwwn. I'm looking at the troubleshooting guide - http://ww...