Storage Networking

Hi guys,I'm connecting a lot of Nexus 55XX using FCoE in Brocade SAN Switches. The Nexus 55xx are conected with a lot of servers using CNA and I have 4 8GB FC between each Nexus and each Brocade SAN Switch.In the Nexus 55xx I'm using FcoE with NPV Mo...

Hello,About a year and a halp ago we had to make a desision about where we wanted our storage strategy to go. We had very little native FC so a move to something else would be pretty easy. Cisco got involved and pointed out that we would be in good p...

Hello!I have a working (activated) IVR zoneset in which i want to add next zone and i have three questions.1. Do i have to activate this zoneset when i add new zone?2. Do i have to make changes on all ivr enabled switches?3. Is it possible that this ...

We are attempting a migration from three brocade switches, to 2 Cisco MDS 9000's. None of us have very much experience with storage networking, so we're hoping that someone can guide us.Here's what we've done so far.Created VSAN's on both MDS's (VSAN...

I thought if Nexus5K vfc interface needs to use "bind mac-address" if CNAs are not directly connected(through fip snooping).If so, why in my testing, I can see multiple WWN login through same vfc interface?N5K36# sh flogi d---------------------------...

Hi,can somebody tell me if EMC clariion FC 4500 is compatible with MDS9216? if yes, what do i need to configure the storage (volumes) as this can't be presented to the MDS as a JBOD?thanks,Kerim

A bit of a noob question, but I can't seem to google (or bing) an answer.In the switching world (where I have more experience), if I create a bundle of 5 x 1Gb connections in an LACP port channel, I get 5Gb of bandwidth, but none of the individual 'c...

I have a MDS 9148 that I have been trying to configure, so I blew away the configuration and ran setup again. It looked normal, I could access it from putty but when I try to use DCNM-SAN to configure it I get "Permission Denied" on everything, new z...

I recently performed an NX-OS upgrade on a pair of 5596's running in vPC mode.  Due to some lingering spanning-tree in the datacenter, this was a non-ISSU upgrade.  We upgraded one switch at a time using the "install all..." command, with the idea th...

                   Hello!!!If i could get the response for my query.I need to enable NPIV as we have VM's to be created and allocate SAN storage to them so my CISCO MDS needs to have NPIV enabled. Following queries linked with this:1. Can i enabled N...

just started working with callhome on mds9000 switches and nx-os 5.2, the tests work just fine. I seem to missing a thread, how do these notifications get to Cisco? I have     destination-profile CiscoTAC-1 format XML, but there is no email associate...

I can see the guide "Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Upgrade and Downgrade Guide" on cisco.com under the Software Release 5.2 category. But so far I can't find a pdf to download. I'm installing a pair of switches in an environment with no Internet conn...

We have two 5548's in VPC mode..All 10 gug connections with port channels back to Netapp storage, VMware and Oracle servers.Currently the storage vlan (220) is not routed.We are having perf issues with ORacle DB, looks like it wants to send data in 8...