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I plan to migrate all our Windows and VMWare ESX Hosts from two Cisco MDS 9216i fabric switches to two new Cisco MDS 9222i switches. I have two question Can I backup the VSAN zones on each of the MDS9216i switches and restore them to new VSans and zonesets that I create in the MDS9222i switches i

Hi, Does anyone have any experience of sharing Symmetrix VMAX FA's between VSAN's using IVR? We are about to put in a new VMAX annd we want to spread the IO widely accross FA's but this will mean implementing IVR, putting the FA's in one VSAN and routing between that VSAN and the various VSAN's t

I'm facing the following: I created 2 IVR zones connecting an HBA to SPA and SPB of a CX4 which is in a different VSAN, but when I want to activate the zoneset the differences show a list of zones which are going to be deleted when the activation is actually performed. I can't figure out why this

I need to ISL the two switches in the subject. Does anyone have experience with these two switches and ISL? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

Folks, We have 7 Mcdata M4500 switches in our backup fabric and we want to replace it with one Brocade 48k switch. Our concern is that the device files will change when we replace the switches. Please answer the following questions: 1) Is there a way to preserve the device files?. What if we ISL t

Cisco DS-C9509 No Standby, Module warning. Sup-2 Redundancy state: At Bios. What is the best way to identify cause and correct?

Hi All, I have 2 x MDS-9513 (SW1 & SW2) and each switch connected with 2 x Port-Channel group with VSAN 5 and 6 which are Transit VSAN. SW1 has VSAN 5, 6, 30, 40, 50. SW2 has VSAN 5, 6, 10, 20, 60. Now, I would like to configure IVR for both swtiches. The Transit VSAN 5 to connect VSAN 3

Hello, I inherited our FM environment for our MDS switches. We use a stand alone version. Today, I can no longer access my fabrics through FM. I am getting a timeout error and cannot start the gui. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you! Admingirl

Hi, I am new to Cisco. Could any one tell me whats the difference between vsan segmentation and vsan isolation ?

To enable trunking on an interface do we need to give command  switchport trunk allowed VSAN 3-6  , or we need to make the interface part of the  vsan 3,4,5,6. Thanks

I've got 3 Brocade switches per fabric, 2 on site 1 (5100 + 5100) and another one (4900) on site 2. The two switches on site 1 are ISL'd over MM 50/125 and working fine, but the triangle connecting these two to the third switch doesn't work. Or in fact: the 9 micron LW SFP's don't see any light.

I believe that there is a tool that allows you to "pull" the fabric/active zoneset/zones from the ED-140M and "install" them on the Brocade DCX? Does anybody know how to do that? I'm NOT going to put the McData and the Brocade in the same Fabric (i.e. - ISL them), with InterOp Mode, and all tha

I have a MDS 9124 and it's showing the transmit and receive for each port is over 24,000%. Is this even possible?  We're seeing it via a monitoring tool.  I am not a Cisco expert so how do we compare these values to the output of the "show interface" command?  what commands can we us

Hello All, I have two seperate fabrics each having a single DCX Backbone switch.We 're now going to add a brand new DCX switch to each of the fabrics. I am pretty new in setting this Up and no prior experiance .  can some one help me what all steps i need to check and configure on the new s

Hi, I have switch cisco MDS 9509, and I wanted to know the firmware of this switch, what will be the command to get it.

Hello Everyone, Recently there's been lots of changes in my company, and they want to automate things by running scripts. I have a Brocade switch infrastruture with 2 48k and 2 5300's, 2 4900's and 4 4100's. I need to create a shell script, so that I can remotly SSH in to switch, create zones, u

Hi All, I need to upgrade our Connectrix FOS on 6 switches. Try as I might, I cannot find it on PowerLink. I know the Connectrix is a Brocade, which is exactly the same type of switch as an HP StorageWorks SAN Switch (which we also have, and are phasing out). Is it possible to use the Brocade F

We have a new Brocade DCX backbone switch. When i run slotshow -- it shows 2 core blade switch and 2 CP blade switch What is the use of both the switches? I know DCX backbone switches have 2 CP blade and 2 core Blade , and CP blade is basically for load balancing . Appreciate if someone

I have 2 switch that is trunked each other (edge and core).The core switch have the lowest firmware compared to the edge switch.Is there anything wrong with the "principal" and "local" switch setting from the edge switch?Why the principal and the local switch is a different switch from the edge swit

Hi, Due to unlimited free ports,I have a planned to expand my SAN fabric with a new additional switch. My question is,if I have done only the physical fc cable connection (without configuring / enable the trunk ports at both end switches),should i see any physical entry / login in the #show flog