Storage Networking

following message pops up when generating a schedule for a report. "Scheduling failed! Please set property:server.forward.email.fromAddress under admin --> preferences"Although, all information is provided and the FMS server's Perf collector is resta...

What would be the best way to extend Fibre Channel over say 3 miles between our 2 data centers? Is FC over IP our only choice? What Cisco switches are needed for this? Thanks.

Hi,Trying to apply a port license to 9124 but everytime I try to add to the bootlash via TFTP I get the following error messageopy tftp://172.22.126.18:69 bootflash:Enter source filename: MDS20090803081953790.licTrying to connect to tftp server.........

Hello, I have 2 new MDS 9134 switches. I have connected them using the 10 gb ports. Port 33 on one to port 33 on the other and port 34 on one to port 34 on the other. The device manager still shows down. Do I have to configure these? If so can anyone...

Hi All,Going forward our new servers will have the capability of aggregating multiple fiber ports into fewer connections on the SAN switch. I am told that there is a particular setting that needs to be enable on the switch for this functionality to w...

I recently purchased 2 x 4/44 cards for our old servers and I can't see how there can be 4 x 8 Gbps and 44 x 4 Gpbs ports. Can someone please explain if certain ports are 8 Gpbs? It seems that all the SFP's are 8 Gpbs..I throught that perhaps it ha...

Hi,I'm looking for a Smartnet procedure document explaining the escalation procedures and the contact information.We have a few Cisco MDS customers with Smartnet so a document mentioning the contact procedures incase of technical problems and part re...

Hi, What is difference between sWWN and nWWN. Is sWWN mandatory for IVR.Rgds.

Hi all, at present we ,have a backup server running netvault, this connects to a san switch, which then connects through a tapedrive, the connection to the backup server is via the ethernet and I think this is how the traffic flows to backup other bo...

IHAC who is running 3.2.2c in his enviorment. 4 MDS Switches. If we Set the Banner Motd on the switch it works fine for Telnet . But not SSH putty or SecureCRT? In my Lab i can get it to work fine? on Both Telnet and SSH . His putty is set to all def...

Hi everyone,I was just wondering if anyone out there is using the MDS modules for IBM BladCenters and if so whether you had had any problems changing the IP details through the BladeCenter management interface. I needed to change a subnet mask but si...

I have a stack of 3750's running two VLANs, one for NFS traffic (id 130) and one for iSCSI traffic (id 150). I have jumbo framing (MTU 9000) on VLAN 150. I'd like to try prioritizing the iSCSI traffic using 802.1p. Can anyone point me to some configu...

Greetings,I have some 24 port (4 Gpbs) cards in my Gen 2 line card 9509's and while trying to add 4 Gbps ISL's, I can't seem to get some ports to accept 4 Gpbs dedicated E port settings. Some ports do but some ports don't. I keep getting a popup s...