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Hello, I have multiple ISL links between my edge and core switches. These links are not channeled together to form one large pipe. Do I really need to channel them? Doesn't the switch balance the load between ISLs anyway? Thanks.

Hi Below are the steps i used to rename a zoneset in CISCO DCNM 5.2.2. After renaming the zoneset( rightclick->Rename , change the name with new and press ENTER ) , while ACTIVATing the zone , this used to show like , removing a zoneset with old name, and adding a zoneset with new name with s

I see it listed in the download section, but don't actually see the download "link" for it. Anyone know if it's been officially released yet?

Our Connectrix Manager Service Processor bit the dust today. I need to recreate the server with version 9.7.4 because our OS levels on our Brocades are so low, no newer version will recognize the fabric. Problem is, I can't find a copy anywhere on-site (digital or physical) or on the Powerlink &

Hello, We hit a max number of SCSI paths to a ESXi host 1024 as we are having 8 paths per each lun, in order to go pass this issue we decided to reduce the number of paths to 6. So we need to remove one zone member from each fabric. We are having two Connectrix ED140M(Mc data) switches first o

I've a question regarding the SAN Fabric migration before going into the question I will mention a few words of our current environment. We are having two Connectrix ED140M(Mc data) switches first one represents Fabric A and the other Fabric B, we want to migrate the same to two Cisco MDS 9506 sw

Anybody uses smart zoning on cisco fabrics ? (new since 5.2.6) Supposedly smart zones can have multiple initiators in a zone, but communication is only allowed initiator to target : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps4159/ps6409/ps5987/at_a_glance_c45-708533.pdf or this blog : Smart

In san enviornment, which will act as a target and intitiator ?? storage or server ??

Hi experts, I'm trying to connect 2 switches, 1 on each site eventually using FCIP on 2 ports per switch. So I'm trying to do this: On the left I'm trying to use 2 physical ports with ip addresses 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.11 and on the right I'm using another subnet with the 2 ports using

Hi Community, I have HP DL380p GEN8 server with HP 81B HBA (Brocade 815 HBA OEM) and Redhat OS and I try to connect it directly to AX4-5F storage without any success : - bcu utility is not showing any remote port - emc discovery process is not finind my host (naviagent is running on host) - f

Hello, I have ran the fiber from the two lower ports on my VNX IO cards to our new 8GB line cards in our MDS 9509 director. I used 10GB laser optimized OM3 (aqua) cables to connect ports from the line card to the I/O card. My ports come up on the switch using "F" port mode, 8GB. I can see the 8GB

Hi experts, I'm running NX-OS 5.0(4) on a number of switches and I'm trying to figure out to what version I should be looking to upgrade. EMC now supports 5.2(6a), but Cisco is already at 5.2(8). What are your experiences with the latest versions? The 504 I'm running now has a bug that core dump

Hi, We have to install a pair of 8 GB edge switches for a group of new servers coming in that will be using 8GB HBA(s). Our fabric is running at 4.7b. We know we need to upgrade the entire thing, however, some of the remedial work needed for hosts to connect to edge switch upgrades will not be co

Hi, How we can get SPF SN # in MDS 9222i from GUI or CLI, Regards, Mawais

Hi Guys, Please see the fabric below 1: fffc01 10:00:00:05:1e:04:c5:c2 10.18.5.27      0.0.0.0        >"PSAN_A"   2: fffc02 50:00:51:e3:93:90:fe:0e 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0 &n

If mirrorview/srdf ports are dedicated to replication, and those ports are members of a stretched vsan that is used solely for replication is there any point using a transit vsan and IVR? To my mind introducing them both into this config unnescessrily complicates the design. What am I missing?

Hello Fabric Manager Server was working until someguy by mistake powered on physical and virtual devices which are for the fabric server we turned off the physical as we are planning to use the virtual serverrunning the fabric manager now running Fabric Manager when choosing Localhost ge

Hello I was trying to install Fabric Manager on Windows 2008 x64 server getting the error of Failed to start PostgreSQL. A security software agent may be blocking PostgreSQL from installing as I checked , may be related to Antivirus so disabled , and may be related to remote service s

Hi ALL, I need some information regarding Firmware upgrade MDS-9506, I little bit confusion in it. Should I copied the firmware bootflash and slot 0 and what is slot 0. Regards Awais

Hi experts, I have several HP-UX hosts connected to Clariion using a Cisco based SAN. I'm aware that for certain OSs the FCID is critical and I know HP-UX is one of them (I think Solaris was the other one). I can look up the FCIDs the HBAs of each HP-UX have and my plan was to set FCIDs to each H