Storage Networking

Is there any performance consideration on the SAN switches we need to monitor prior to updating NX-OS?

Hi thereI cannot get an MDS 9148 to recognise and push zoning to a 6248 FI. I have an MDS9148 (6.2.3) connected to a 6248 FI (2.1.2a). I am using DCNM 6.2.3.  I only have the base port license on the MDS, and the free version of DCNM. My reading of t...

HI,Can anyone pls share difference between FCoE & iSCSI, where it is best suitableHow nexus switch is supporting this twoBr/Subhojit                  

Hello,I have some 50 zones to add to a zoneset.. is there any easy way like a script to use  and push it..

Folks, We do have two MDS's, and I am really curious to know if there is a possibility to force the MDS notify me when any zone becomes inactive? IMHO, if any server has an issue in any zone, does the MDS see that zone as inactive?Thanks,Thiago Henri...

Trying to decent on a switch for a new rack install where 10GB to the server is requested.  The storage is up in the air right now, but it will likely be iscsi.  If we're strickly doing iscsi or nfs storage presentation, and the SAN has 10GB uplinks,...

I am working on a DC solution between two DC, each site will be using the following devices.Primary DC & Backup DC1. 2 x Cisco Nexus 7009 (DC Core Switch)2. 2 x Cisco Catalyst 65009 (Campus/Network Core Switch)  - I did not include it in the Diagram,...

Hello all.Strange issue I faced during a migration last week : I had to introduce a new switch into a fabric, everything went fine.At some point I had to clean all the "full zone sets" (in order to refresh the local database with the active zoneset),...

Hi,I have two nexus 5k connected via port channel and two UCS also attached to 5k via port-channel, it's SAN[iscsi]/ LAN shared segment.Do you guys think I should enable flow control on the trunk clinks between 2 nexus5ks and the UCS Fiber interconne...

              Hi,Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this ! - Please advise correct location.We have a pair of N5K that we must get working with Microsoft NPS and just cannot :-(Basically the NPS servers keep going into a "Dead State" even t...

Hello , does anybody know, if Nexus 5000 works with SFP-10G-LRM? Compability Matrix says no, but probably someone got another experience.Thankx

HelloWe have issue with MDS role when we use custom roles.Example of problem: The question mark is working on "Predefined group" example network-admin. But not on custom role in MDS NX-OS 5.2.As a reference everything works prefect on Nexus 5k nx-os ...