Storage Networking

hi, would there be any advantage to do a port trunk to gain performance increase in speed/io through put?scenario is as follows, I have 2 9506's, two seperate fabrics.one netapp filer that has 8 ports, 4 for tape and 4 for disk luns.would it make sen...

Hi all,Supose I have "9513", connected to it several "Bladecenters" and several "9513" switches.My wish is to discover the attached switches with CLI commands.The additional 9513 I can recognize with "show topology" that gives me the attached (trunk,...

Hello,I had a quick question about the FI's ability for multipathing.As in the pic I've attached. If the the FC switch with the big circle around it, and line through it goes down. What will happen to the VM's on my ESXi hosts do? How will this failo...

Hello All,I'm designing a UCS+Storage FC solution for two sites (Primary and DR) and there's only the N7K+N2K combo. Because the N7K doesn't have FC ports (anything in the roadmap?) and the sites doesn't have SAN switches (only iSCSI storage), I'm tr...

Hi, I have the following scenario.I have a neo oveland 8000 with 12 drives. The first drive acts as a library controller. We just got 2 new 9506 switches and I am wondering can I split the library between the two sans. Now the two SANS we would like ...

I have a Nexus 5548UP switch running version 5.2(1)N1(1b) and a UCS C240 M3S with firmware version 1.4(7b) directly attached via a 10G link (fiber) between the switch port and a UCS VIC P81E in slot 2 of the C240 (Eth 1/32 to port 0 on the P81E).I ha...

1 x PC is showing as thick link and also all ISLs shown beside it. There are other PC created and all ISL links have been replaced by one PC link in the topology diagram. All links are up and working if viewed from CLI. Port channel created between 1...

We are going to do a rip and replace of our 9509 directors to new 9513's.  I am setting up the new environment for the new fiber manager server and the 9513 chassis.  The delivered NX-OS is 5.2.2, I see a 5.2.6(b) out there.  I see a version 6.2 on t...

We have a VSAN that span across two sites and we want to split it so we keep the original VSAN (44) in site one but in site two create a new VSAN (88) and make the members of the old VAN members of the new. We use Basic Zones. I see the steps as foll...

Hi,I am trying to configure FCoE between UCS (End host mode) and a Nexus switch. I think I have them configured correctly, however if I do a 'show interface vfc997' on the fabric interconnect, it displays this:vfc997 is trunking (Not all VSANs UP on ...

There are some limitations regarding QoS on the Nexus Fabric Extenders. One big limitation is that they currently cannot mark packets or qos-groups using ACL's or DSCP. As far as I know, on FEX ports you can only mark ALL packets w/ a COS value or tr...