Storage Networking

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

Hi, I am a networking guy and i need to understand which configuration do i need to connect 2 UCS 6120 to my Nexus 5000 (2 with VPC),I know that i must activate npiv and fcoe feature, and read about creating vsans and vfc, my first question is does a...

Just a quick question because I could not find this in the Cisco document for MDS 9513.We're replacing module 2's with module 3s.  Since it's Active/Standby, I know I can shut down the Standby module 2 and replace with a module 3.  The questions are:...

Someone is using a Virtual Connect FlexFabric Module and CISCO MDS switches ??It's possible to aggregate (trunking) 2 or more uplinks between the Virtual Connect FlexFabric Module's uplink ports and the  SAN switch MDS 9148?Virtual Connect suports VS...

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...