Storage Networking

Folks,I did a quick seach and couldn't find anything definative.  I have 4 cisco MDS 9100 switches.  One has recently shown us a orange powersupply light on the front.  However when I look at show hardware I don't see any bad modules....We are orderi...

Here is my setup, I have two 5548UP's connected via VPC peer link. I am tring to use VPC to connect to a NetApp with dual 10gb ports using FCOE, with each 5548 getting one of the connections.I then want to use VPC to connect to a dell server that has...

Hi all,I came across a couple of issues I cannot figure out:I have in my environment some switches that do not have the ablity to run "SHOW FLOGI DATABASE". The switches are from the 91XX family. However, I can see the attached WWNs (on every port) i...

Hi experts,We have a N5K-C50510P-BF. When these nexus starts that didn't booting any further than the kickstart. Here's the boot sequence log User break into bootloaderLoader Version pr-1.3loader>loader> boot bootflash:n5000-uk9-kickstart.5.2.1.N1.3....

              what are these messages meaning?              what is the difference between these messages?              BB credit to zero state                   BB credit out of zero state# show interface fc2/1 counter details fc2/1      30440368387...

                   We have a MDS 9513 Core switch which is also Principle switch in the Production fabric. This needs to be replaced. I am planning these steps:1. Take Backup Configuration(runing config, Licenses, zones) to TFTP Server2. Block the IS...

Hello,I am going to move my hosts (AIX) and Storage from a Brocade SAN to a CISCO SAN with MDS9513 directors. I have read some considerations related to problems with the FCID. Has anybody ever done this migration? After reconnect the cables to the C...

I have a customer who wants to run a 3rd party SAN management application (Tivoli Storage productivity Center - aka TPC) to manage n MDS9500 environment. The integration guide says that it uses the CIMSERVER feature.I see where post v5.2.6a, CIMSERVE...

Hello Folks,I am trying to look for working config with LDAP auth over SSH. I know how to use them over TACACS+ & Radius. But due to other internal issue, currently I am trying to get the Cisco MDS to directly auth using LDAP/AD. Also, I see no optio...

We have 3 new MDS 9222i's shipped with NX-OS 5.2(2) and we upgraded to 5.2(6b).  Under both release we had some issues with the Ethernet interfaces not coming up.  I think it may be due to issues with auto speed and duplex negotations. So configured ...

HiWe have one port channel configured in our Customer environment. This port channel has been configured with 6x4Gbps ports inside it. One of the switch port started flapping (up & down) continuously, which caused multiple alerts on many hosts as wel...

Hi!I'm trying to get some SAN-switches (9124/9148 with NX-OS 5.0(4d) to log everything to a syslog server.From looking in the manuals it seems like "logging server <ip-address> <severity>" should do the trick, but when i tested with using severity 6,...

I have one C220 connects to Nexus 5548UP via FCoE, but the vfc is in trunking, and the vsan is waiting for flogi.Below is the conf,vlan 1000  fcoe vsan 1000 vsan database  vsan 1000 interface vfc1  bind interface Ethernet1/1  switchport trunk allowed...