Storage Networking

        Hiall SAN switches MDS95XX and MDS9124e24 port  must be upgraded from NX-OS 4.1.3a to NX-OS 5.2.2dI have no details on the process for switch HP 9124 e.Is it disruptif  . How many steps from 4.1.3a to 5.2.2d . Generally is the process the sam...

Hi, I have a Nexus switch 5548UP, and want to install 30 FC ports, so do i need to buy 4 N55-8P-SSK9 licenses or do i need to buy the N55-48P-SSK9 license?.regards,Juan Pablo Hidalgo

Hi All,I am very new to MDS switches (MDS9148 )- DS-C9148D-8G16P-K9And need help in configuring this switch in my DC environment. Any kind of help will be really appreciated. Attached is the topology diagram.I am intending to get the 8Gig HBAs up and...

                   Hi,I have 2 cisco mds 9216 login. I restarted the fabric manager and database service to refresh the GUI but since then iam unable to login into the fabric manager. It is stuck as "Discovering the Network",please wait.

Completely new to the Cisco switches, I'm struggling with some of the basics. Right now, I'm playing with the virtual fibre channel bits.On a Nexus 5548UP version 5.1(3)N2(1)conf tint vfc 16bind int eth 1/6no shutswitch# show int vfc 16vfc16 is trunk...

Hi,In my enviroment I have a datacenter with 2 Nexus 5548UP with FCoE Licence. As I am new to storage networking I need some information about the configuration of FCoE.The enviroment is :2 x 5548UP Switch2 x 2232PP FEX1 x Host with Emulex OneConnect...

Hello Folks,Can some one let me know how to launch the Fabric manager installer in IE 8, I am using Windows 7 32 bit OS with IE 8.I can't launch the Fabric manager installer in IE 8, your help much appriciated. thanks in advance.

                   Hi,We have 2 MDS 9216 switches which are ISLed together. Yesterday night we had a power outage and since then one of the switches(switch b) has a red line across it. I have tried to restart the fabric manager services but that did ...

Hello,I am currently installing Cisco MDS 9148 switches and I want to configure CallHome email alerts for basic monitoring.Email test is working well, callhome events are working well (switch reload) but when I try to perform a link failure (remove F...

Hi Experts,Can anyone recommend me a 2 X 24 ports 10Ge iSCSI Switch (Stack)These switch will be use our storage solutions with 10Gb iSCSI redundant controller and network interfaces.Thanks.

Hi,How do we best connect our two 5596's together for redundancy and multipathing, both physically and configuration-wise?  I see information about vPC's in the manuals, but I'm not sure if this is really what we need to do.  We have a simple design-...

I inherited a SAN environment where both fabric A and B are using VSAN 1 for everything, and this may cause an issue with our path to merging the fabrics into a new FCoE environment. I was wondering if anyone had any experience in moving everything o...

Can someone clear this up for me please.When designing an ISCSI SAN do you keep the ISCSI traffic separate from the core network? I've got a blade enclosure, switch and SAN. I'm planning to connect the blade and SAN via the switch and create one VLAN...

I have two sites connected by 96 strands of fibre. At each site I have an IBMv7000 relicating to the other one. For iSCSI traffic I have two Cisco 3750 switches, each are in 2 switch stack.  SAN A                         Fibre Link                   ...