Storage Networking

in fabric manager, isl shows one member down.  one switch seems fine on the map but shows status of "unknown user name (server)"one switch shows red line through on the map and shows status of "invalid auth password or wrong digest (client)"i can get...

We are moving from Fibre Channel on brocade switches to Cisco FCoE using Nexus/UCS/NetApp. I have many people tell me good and bad about this. Someone actually asked me if I was moving to FCoE from FC on purpose or if I had a death wish? I know what ...

HiThere is a large and growing fan in from our VMware environment into the nexus 5000. The nexus is setup as an access gateway and it’s uplink to the SAN (DCX8510) consists of two 8G ISLs. More ISLs could be added but this would not solve the essence...

hi, I have a novice isl question. I have 2 new 9506 switches, they are seperate fabrics. we have some older switches that I would like to ISL to them.By looking at the older switches I see the way they are ISLed and want to understand if this is corr...

We are using MDS Cisco Fabric switch.I would like to know more about scirpting documentation for switch.everytime we need to add the port descrition manually via DM.Could u please someone suggest how that can be managed by script.We have mulpiple ser...

Hi!I wonder if there is a way to find out not zoned WWNs in SAN by some command or set of

Hi peopleI need a paper where a can find the best solution for a network where, in this moment, it sharing data traffic with backp traffic.If you have recomendations, links, etc, please tell me.The current equipment are Cisco 4500, 3560 and 2960.Gree...

            Can anyone explain what the following event is about. This event has been logged too many times in our switch on a daily basis%KERN-3-SYSTEM_MSG: Both SYN and FIN bits are set. Discard this packet - kernel Is it a bug in the existing soft...

Hello,I am trying to find out whether the alert from the SAN switch can be pointed to my email without using snmp manager server, third party monitoring tool or call home feature.Its a Cisco MDS 9509 - version 4.2(7a)SNMP and community strings has be...

Does anyone know about scripting possibilities for the MDS series.I know the FM Server Database Schema document, but want to script directly the switch.Many thanks in advance for any idea.Kind regards,Chris