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Brocade not seeing WWN's

I have the following scenario: IBM virtual bladecenter with build in Cisco MDS switch as NPV. This Cisco NPV switch is connected with NP port to Cisco MDS Director where I can see NPIV HBA's of different blades. The problem comes in where the Cisco NPV switch is also connected to a Brocade Director

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Adding a 8 GB line card

Hello, Slots 8/9 are currently empty on my MDS 9509's. I need to add an additional 8 GB line card. Can we do that as Non Disruptive FRU? Many thanks in advance! Admingirl

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Defined ZoneCFG's out of sync between dual core directors

Hello, Scenario: - In each fabric my customer has a pair of Brocade directors. Originally, director1A(principle) and director2A(subordinate) were DCX-4Bs with standard ISLs (ICLs not used) A few months ago they replaced director2A(subordinate) in each fabric with new DCX-8510-8’s

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Domain ID concerns when removing a brocade director from a fabric

Greetings, I am removing a switch from a fabric, as the location is no longer used. To complicate things and cause me lack of sleep, the switch I want to remove is the Seed/Principal Switch. The switch is connected via two ISLs to the fabric.  The fabric has switches set up as: DCX Br

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licenses: ISL trunking license vs trunking license

Hi All, Seems there is considerable confusion around Trunking licenses . We will be creating two fabrics  each fabric will have two ISL connections between both switches that will form a Trunk. On ds300 we have Trunking  and Fabric licenses installed and on the ds6510 only a 12 port

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VNX Performance Thresholds

Hi, I am currently working on a hospital project, we have three storage pools, of which 2 are over the 80% consumed with the third at 65% but oversubscribed an additional 50%. General rule of thumb has been on most vendor SANs that performance thresholds are around the 70-80% capacity for opti

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Daily Health check - CISCO MDS Switches

Hello, trying to enhance my daily checks on our SAN directors; may you please provide recommended commands to perform to check the switches health status, including but not limited to performance , CPU utilization , check if there any dumps or crashes on the switch, check port utilizations this migh

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four brocades and two vnx5700

Hi all, Our Production VNX 5700 is connected to two 6510's brocade switches and they are currently not set in failover to each other (separate zone cfg) . We have another VNX 5700 non- production which is connected to two DS300's with similar setup no failover (separate zone cfg) . We would lik

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How can I determine if a Brocade SFP is nearing the end of its lifespan?

Over time the output power and input sensitivity of an SFP (Tx) deteriorates. You can measure "how much light" is received on an SFP by using web tools and looking on the Tx power: Also by looking at the Rx power you can see whether an SFP receives enough light to operate without problems. B

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ISL between 2 Brocade switches with different FOS versions Options

So we have 1 switch fabric [4100B v.4.2a] that needs to be decomed after the cables being migrated to 6510[FOS 7.2.1]. Will ISLing the 2 switches segment the switches? I wish to (after the ISL's) move the cables from old to the new switches and remove the ISL. Will this make the new switch pr

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Find unused fcalias from CLI in NX-OS 5.2.2

Hello, I'm running MDS9148 and MDS9509 with NX-OS 5.2.2. Is there any way to get a listing of fc aliases that are not used in a zone. In other words, I need to find all of the fc aliases that have been abandoned. Getting a listing of device aliases seems easy, fc aliases not so much. Thanks.

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is there a planned CMCNE Linux OS based availability

hi Folks my customer is using CMCNE 12.1.5 Windows OS based and wants to use the Linux version of CNCME Unfortunately, EMC do not provided any Linux based CNCME version, but Brocade provide it on BNA. Does some Product Managers have any roadmap information on when EMC will provide a LINUX v

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MDS 9513 - pwwn|connected to

hello all ,     I'm currently working on an upgrade from nx-os 5.2.2 to 5.2.8c .  We have some internal formalities to be done before the upgrade . I'm filling up an excel sheet for each mds 9513 (we have 4 , 2 in each fabric ) . Looking for these details Port No || Por

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How do I track link problems (ISL)?

I have a couple of Brocade 6505 switches running on 2 distant sites, using DWDM and over that same DWDM physical link the network guys are running their ip connectivity. They're experiencing link loss problems, but so far I don't see any FC problems between my switches. How can I verify when ISL lin

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Discards and Errors | MDS 9513

hey all ,    I'm seeing a lot of discards and errors on our mds9513 . We are running  at NX - 5.2.2 (yeah we are due for an upgrade ) . how do I figure out which port is it with these high  discards ,  what commads do I use . I do a  #show interface |inc error

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DCX8510-4B recommended firmware level

Hi! We are installing the new Brocade DCX8510-4B director. However there are different Fabric os level-s. According the Target Revision and adoption rates document the recommended firmware level is: 7.0.2c The director running v7.0.1 software level. (factory shipped) The revision wh

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CMCNE 12.2.x

Does anyone have any target dates for EMC to certify and release CMCNE 12.2? There are some major enhancements to dashboards and other functionality that we are anxiously looking forward to.

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Buffer credits on the new Cisco MDS 9148S

At EMC World the latest addition to the Cisco MDS family was announced: the MDS 9148S, which supports 16Gb SFPs in line rate. I'm wondering how many B2B credits these machines have. Does anyone know? I just cannot find that info anywhere. The 8Gb model has 128 B2B credits per port group, but I'm hop

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How to use a (Windows) CMD batchfile to run commands on Cisco MDS

I need to run some sort of script from a (Windows) host which runs 2 comamnds on the CLI of a Cisco MDS switch. Also: the output should be logged somewhere, preferrably to a log on that host. Does anyone know how to do this? I want to fully automate it, so copy paste after starting an ssh session

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VXE3150 ping lost during vmware commit on very small VMs

Hi, i have a Vmware enviroment connected to NFS shares. Even taking/committing a snapshot of a very small VM with virtually no changes (delta), the process of committing takes 10-15 seconds, which is not accecpatble. I have read the ACK could cause the problem, is it possible to disable that?

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