EMC XtremIO – Smart Zoning Example
The example provided is based on the following design: Dual X-Brick Cluster Cisco MDS Switches – Dual Fabric VMware ESXi 4x Host Environment 4 Smart Zoned Paths per ESXi Host (2 paths […]
Cisco Nexus 3064 – Configuring Jumbo Frames
The default MTU size on a Nexus 3064 switch is 1500 bytes, the following details how to reconfigure the switch for a system wide MTU value of 9216(jumbo). ——————————————————————————– Note: The Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switch does not fragment frames. As a result, the switch cannot have two ports in the same Layer 2 domain with different maximum transmission units […]
Cisco Nexus 5K – Unified Port Conversion
Nexus 5000 series UP switches have the option of either enabling individual ports as Ethernet or Fibre Channel ports. One of the strict guidelines is to begin enabling ethernet ports […]
VMAX VG2/8 – Masking View & Cisco Zoning Script
This post will cover the Masking and Zoning scripts for a VG when using Cisco MDS fabric switches. This post will not cover the creation or rules around the Control […]
Cisco MDS – Upgrading Firmware
MDS 9000 Series Firmware Upgrade It is always good practice to read the software ‘release notes’ before proceeding with an upgrade. The ‘Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS and SAN-OS Software’ release […]
CISCO UCS Blades – Memory Troubleshooting
This is a guest blog post kindly contributed by Eric Daly @daly_eric. In an effort to pin point specific DIMMs within UCS that are throwing an error, please follow these […]
EMC VMAX – 10K Zoning with Cisco MDS Switches
In this example I will show how to complete the zoning for a two Host ESX Cluster (ESX01 & ESX02), using a dual Fabric connecting to a EMC VMAX 10K […]
Cisco MDS Zoning – RENAME
In this post, I’ll detail some useful commands that can be leveraged to rename Cisco zoning components: FCALIAS ZONE ZONESET RENAME ALIAS FOR HOSTS (vsan id of 10): switch(config)# fcalias rename old-AliasName new-AliasName vsan 10 RENAME ZONES: switch(config)# zone rename old-ZoneName new-ZoneName vsan 10 RENAME ZONESETS: switch(config)# zoneset rename old-ZoneSetName new-ZoneSetName vsan 10 Once complete Activate and Commit these changes: […]
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