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4GB line cards with 48 and 24 ports. All connections are local, just a few metres. MDS was pretty packed to connect numerous HP blades but many FC-ports will be availlable soon after migration to Cisco UCS with only a few NPV ports. These links are strategically distributed across the MDS to hav

Hi all, We want to start monitoring our port states and performance on our Cisco SAN switches (SAN-OS and NX-OS) via SNMP. Since SNMPv3 is a lot more secure than SNMPv2, I want to enforce SNMPv3 all the way: authentication and privacy/encryption of SNMP traffic. However, I'm starting to get rat

Hello, Our directors and edge switches are currently at 4.2(7b). Old, I know, however, it has been hard to get outages. We need to install an 8GB line card into the directors to allow for ARRAY - Director zoning at 8GB. The model number is a DS-x9224-96K9. I was told the code level on the card is

Hello, In order for Fabric Manager to see our new 8GB 9148 switches, I have to upgrade from 5.01a to 5.07. Is this complicated? I have not seen any documentation on this and can I just install the new version on a Virtual Machine and have it discover the Fabric as well? Didn't know if it was pos

Hello All, Maybe someone has some advice ... I have 8 blades (BL460s) in a HP C7000 Flex-10 chassis, all with their cards in the correct slots but we are having intermittent problems with the Connectrix Manager seeing the blades to allow provisioning. One minute they are seen, next they are no

Hi team, I want to extend my SAN network by adding new SAN switches.My existing SAN consists of DS 200B switches.How i can done this work?.Will Inter switch linking is possible ? .Do i have to purchase ISL Trunking license if loadbalancing and failover are needed ?. What is the recommendation for

I need to enable port channel the FI on the UCS 6248 but I am a bit hesitant since this is on a 9513 director switch.   I have read many documents about this change, but none reassure me that it is not disruptive.  When I go to Enable it I get a message that reads "Admin trunk mode will be

Hi, Our network team is going to replace two line cards in our NEXUS that connect to our VNX ISCSI slics. The development ISCSI cluster is on this platform. Is there anything I need to do to the ISCSI ports on my end before they start? Is there anything the application team needs to do for the IS

Hello, I need to save the running configuration on the cisco 9134 and 9509 switches. Will running copy run start accomplish this? AdminGirl

I have 2 Brocade DCX4S's connected over 1 ISL and I'm curious how much data per second I can send to the other site. I used the commands spinfab and fcping to determine if the ISL is ok and what the latency is. - spinfab returns that the ISL is fine - fcping returns an average of 4.6 ms The

Just a note.. all I have is the CLI (no Fabric Manager) on the Cisco MDS. I'm adding a RHEL 5.8 box to the SAN. HBA cards are configured in the server, wired up to the Cisco SAN Switch.  Now I'm stuck on this whole "zoning" thing so the server can see the DMX4.  On the switch: show

Hi, I plan to perform the upgrade for one of my SAN switches from 4.2(7a) to 5.0(4d).Anyhow from the below compatibility check it seems that it will be a disruptive upgrade due to insufficient resources. From the Cisco release notes; If there is not enough memory in the system to load the new

Hi I just wondering why the event shows 2xtimes for down,and 1xtime for up only..Appreciate if any expert out there can explain me on this 2012 Jun 17 06:27:16 SELDSSW301 %PORT-5-IF_DOWN_LINK_FAILURE: %$VSAN 3%$ Interface bay14 is down (Link failure)2012 Jun 17 06:28:41 SELDSSW301 %PORT-5-IF_D

Can anyone clearly explain the difference between static and dynamic persistency / assignment when creating persistent fcids on mds? I'm not asking about persistent fcids or static domains or enabling persistent fcids on a vsan ... I'm talking about an already persistent fcid that has an assignme

Hello experts, I'm seeing the following: 2 Cisco MDS switches connected over a portchannel which consists of 2 ISLs. Each ISL is running at 4Gb, so the portchannel is 8Gb. We're seeing lots of dropped packets during 11PM and 6AM and II'd like to know why this happens. The physical layer seems ok,

Dear experts, I'm facing the following: I have a DCX which I need to connect to a LAN switch using Ethernet. Since the 10GE license does actually cost a few dollars (a lot) I'm investigating the option to use the 1GbE SFP's which are license free. If I connect a VMAX using an 8Gb link for SRDF

Hi All, below is the oversubscription output from our core switch MDS 9513.can somebody tell me what is the bandwidth means here ? is that bandwidth for each port group ? Module Group Ports Bandwidth InputRate OutputRate 1 1 1-3 1.200G

I have a VNX7500 configured with only Storage pool (TP1). And now I can see it’s about to reach the Pool threshold limit (70%). Is it’s possible to change the threshold though we are using THIN LUNs. If possible can I go ahead and extend the threshold limit to 85 % in online. And let me know

Looks like Brocade is recommending setting 8Gb SAN ports to mode3 for the fillword setting. What I am trying to determine is there a way to set eitehr all ports or all ports on a blade to this or is it a port level command only.  Having to go thru 6 blades with 64 ports on a DCX and set this i

Hi All, In a core-edge topology(having multiple core and edge switch) where will be the zones database resides ? will that be in a single switch or will all switch have this database ?