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We have two buildings connected through a fibre link.One building has a L3 switch, which has been configured with VLANs for each classroom and one VLAN for the server room. We can connect between the VLANs without problem.The second building has bee...
Hi,Does the MDS9120 switch between its ports by default? If not, how can switching be enabled in the CLI, please?We have a Cisco MDS9120. We've connected Port 1 to an HP MSA1000 SAN device, Port 5 to a Windows Server and Port 6 to a VMware Server. ...
Hi there,I understand that Cisco Fabric Manager is supplied free on the product CD.We have a Cisco MDS 9120 but no product CD and, therefore, no Cisco Fabric Manager.Where can I download a copy, please?If it's not available for download, can someone ...
Please assist with information about configuring an MDS 9124 FC Switch.We have a HP MSA1000 SAN device, which was connected to a QLogic HBA on our Windows Server. We need to add connectivity to the MSA1000 from another HP server running VMware ESX S...
Hi,I've been asked to configure our MDS9120 from scratch. When it boots, it ends with the loader> prompt.I checked the contents of bootflash: and there are three files:- lost+found- the kick-start file- the SAN-OS fileI booted the kick-start file an...
Hi Rick,Here is the latest status on my attempts to achieve the four requirements that we have.I've managed to get the L3 device in BuildingA to communicate with the R-O-A-S f 0/1.500 sub-interface, as described above. I don't know why it didn't wor...
Continuation of previous post.During the one hour that I had this Friday, I tried unsuccessfuly to create a routing solution between the buildings. I had time to try two different approaches:1. I continued to use the L2 switch port in BuildingB as o...
Hi Rick,Thanks for your latest update.There are four separate requirements:1. There are separate Domain Controllers in each building for the primary domain, each in its own VLAN for its serverroom. These DCs need to keep AD in sync. and, therefore, ...
Hi Rick,Thanks once more for your interest and assistance.Regrettably, I appear to have mislead you with regard to the ESX servers. Generally, the ESX server in BuildingA will provide centralised VMs for the classrooms in that building. Similarly, ...
Hi Rick,I've just recognised one flaw in my understanding - I was confusing L3 addressing with L2. The dot1q header gets appended before the Ethernet header (MAC addresses rather than IP addresses) - I should have paid more attention to the second p...
