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I am merging the new 9710 with old 9513 and all the 8 ports selected for ISL are in offline state.
How can I validate the ports attempted to merge? How to verify the logs relevant to the merge?
What are the pre-requisites for integrating AD authentication for MDS 9710 directors?
Which guide/document deals with LDAP configuration ?
Any lesson learned from your experience then please feel free to share.
I'm preparing for a hardware refresh from MDS9513 to MDS9713. I want to consider the Use of smart zoning during the migration.
Have anyone done this conversion from traditional zoning to Smart zoning as part of a migration?
What are the pros and cons...
Consider this as three test scenarios:
Supervisor module failover/failback. Expected: Management access to be available after a few seconds disruption during the switch over)Management port connection failure on active supervisor module. Expected: ...
I am installing a pair of MDS9710 as part of an upgrade. But fails to complete the redundancy test for the management connections.
When I disconnect management port on active sup-module the other one did not pickup. At the same time only the active p...
VSAN is a virtualization layer on top of a physical switch. You can use the switch as a single entity without virtual layer. But with VSAN you can make it looks like a group of switches each having their own VSAN membership or id. The default VSAN is...
other related commands I considered are below. I need to compare them before and after the merge.
show zone status
show fcdomian domain-list vsan x
show int brief | i trunk
show zoneset active vsan x
show zoneset vsan x
In addition zoneset distribut...
) Configure Management interface.
) Create VSAN's
) Set Zone distribution to match the existing switch
). Add static Domain ID's for each VSAN.
) set priority so as to select the correct principal switching during ISL merge.
) Configure ISL (min 2...
