Storage Networking

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                   ...

Hi All,A scenario was recently presented to me that involved connecting two SANs between two Data Centers.  One of the Data Centers is existing and utilizes Nexus 5K switches while the other Data Center will be greenfield and is currently just a shel...

I have a couple of  9124e Blade switches that have Severe Alerts reported for the current memory status in the show system resources output as shown below. I'm guessing that the amount of memory free is a problem, but how can I resolve the issue? The...

Does anyone know if the 9506 supports the 8Gbps line rate to every port advertised with this new card?We just had a customer purchase one for their 9506 that is running NX-OS 5.2.1. The card works fine but they aren't able to get 8Gpbs dedicated per ...