Storage Networking

I recently purchased DCNM for SAN (and LAN), have installed and licensed it. The software is up and running, and I have installed the necessary features & licenses to each of my Nexus 5596UP devices. Unfortunately, I'm not able to make any changes to...

Let's say we have a fcalias which contains a group of tape drives. This drive group alias is already a member of an active zonezone name tapeserver_tapedrive vsan 10   member fcalias tape_drive_group exit Now I am adding a new drive into the group. D...

Hello,I have question about numbers of vHBAs for server which boots from SAN. Should I use 2 vHBAs only for boot, and another 2 for data or I should create only 2 vHBAs in service profile and use them for all kind of traffic ? Which design is proper ...

I am currently running DCNM 6.2(3).I am currently trying to setup DCNM-SAN to manage our SAN environment.  (mix of MDS9000, N5k, UCS).I have discovered the SAN fabric with a tacacs account successfully.  (Not a local account on the switches but it st...

Hi, Hopefully somebody can help ?. We were upgrading our UCS Cluster , one of the 6248's upgraded okay but the other one crashed at 51% and now boots into a bash-2.05b# hash prompt accompanied by the following messagesbash-2.05b# 2014 Apr 14 15:12:36...

Nowadays we have two links (4G each) for synchronous storage replication (FC) and two links (1G each) for ethernet (L2L) using DWDM.We are planing reduce costs utilizing FCoE and eliminate two links.Is anyone has experience utilizing Nexus 7K/77K for...

We are getting IBM Flex systems which include a Brocade IB-6547 running 7.2 OS. I want to connect these to my Cisco MDS9513’srunning 5.2 OS. I have all the Brocade information on setting up Access Gateway but I’m looking for a bit more on the Cisco s...

Added some new zones today, but when I went to do a verification before the activation I got some extra steps....CHESXIEA2_0_CHNCXLAB02_SPA1[WWN, WWN][Add, Add][Clariion_90602250-SPA1, Emulex_10:00:00:00:c9:91:3d:1a][SC-9222i-D02 fc1/6, SC-9222i-D02 ...

if so do I still need to install the feature-set fcoe in the default VDC to run in NPV mode? Thanks,

I am new to Cisco MDS FC switches.  I'm trying to ensure our SAN has sufficient MDS ports licensed.  When I look at the output of Show Port-license on one of my switches, I see things like: interface fc1/3:   port-license acquire   no shutdown interf...

Hi Guys, Yesterday, I added a HP server (no local disk installed) with 2 x CNA adapters to my current network (attachment). I connected each CNA adapter to each FEX in the diagram and I then powered the server up. During the boot, I entered to the QL...

Hi, I'm configuration 1 gig port-channelling between Nexus 5548UP and 6513 Catalyst Switch. I'm getting the error message "port-channel not connected on the catalyst switch". Channel-group is up on the nexus but down on the catalyst switch. The ports...

I never done storage networking before and while configuring and testing our zone/zoneset config I ended up adding targets and all members to the same zone.  I'm positive this is not best practice and hoping someone will point me in the right directi...