Storage Networking

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 ...

I have an MDS 9509 that is generating the message "write error: No space left on device" whenever I perform a "dir log:". the output looks as follows:MDS9509# dir log:who: write error: No space left on device         31    Jun 24 21:31:07 2008  dmesg...

Hello, I've to manage a Cisco Fabric Manager Server which was previosly managed by other department.  The admin password for the web client was changed and no one knows it. Is there a procedure to recover it or is there a way to access web client?Tha...

I noticed that the performance graphs created in Cisco DCNM are not complete. They have missing pieces (holes) in the graph lines. I can only think that the performance data is not collected successfully by the management tool and therefore it cannot...

Hello folks,i am preparing to upgrade my MDS 9513 (rev 2) and MDS 9222i to 5.2.6a code. Looking at the release notes for 5.2.x i see that i will first need to upgrade to 5.0.x and then to 5.2.x. Another caveat that i see is that we currently use IVR ...