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michaelchurchill1 · 10-07-2015

I have a customer who is looking to use a series of mds 9148s switches as Edge / TOR switches to a core consisting of a single MDS 9710They however require the code on the core switches to be IBM FICON QualifiedThere present MDS 9710 environment is ...

michaelchurchill1 · 09-29-2015

I have a customer interested in using 9148s switches in NPV mode in a core edge environment as basically Top of rack switches connected to a single core mds 9710 using code 6.2(5a)Are there any good document out there that can give me a basic for and...

michaelchurchill1 · 10-29-2015

Paresh I cam e to the same conclusion, customer has accepted that we will need to move to the later code version to maintain support and keep codes in lock step so we are good, thanks for confirming the details

michaelchurchill1 · 09-30-2015

Just to add to this using a test environment which will be two 9148s based on a minimum code level of 6.2(5a) one acting as the core switch with NPIV enabled the other as an edge switch in NPV mode will be looking to answer the customers following qu...

michaelchurchill1 · 09-29-2015

Yes, will probably look at using that if I do this in production between the 9710 and 9148s but it is not supported between the test environment which will consist off two 9148s switches not even sure these will work in NPV mode and NPIV mode as a te...

michaelchurchill1 · 09-29-2015

Problem is cannot argue for it or against it if I cannot list the negatives as well as the positiveThe limit is less in terms of the number of switches that can be used in NPV mode when connected to a core switch to 105 compared to the 329 I believe ...

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Problem is cannot argue for