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EMCWorld 2013: Introducing new Cisco MDS stuff
Due to different nice things in Vegas combined with EMC Elect stuff, I am not able to attend as much as sessions that I had in my mind, but today I attended the session “Cisco/EMC Multiprotocol Fibre Channel SAN’s for … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, EMC
Tagged 16, 16gb, 9200, 9250, 9250i, 9500, 9700, 9710, airflow, b2b, brocade, chassis, Cisco, Computing, converged, convergence, credits, director, EMC, Fabric, FC, fcip, FCoE, ficon, iscsi, ivr, LAN, mds, multiprotocol, nx, nx-os, os, Port, ports, SAN, Series, Switch, System, UCS, Unified, vblock, VNX, vsan, vspex
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Cisco MDS Inter VSAN Routing & Scripting
When using a Cisco MDS environment with the Inter VSAN feature on a 9222i for example, it can take a lot of work to complete the zoning configuration. The most easy way is to use the GUI based IVR wizard, … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco MDS, Powershell
Tagged 1924, 1934, 9222i, activate, add, afid, alias, automonous-fabric-id, autonomous, Cisco, database, device, device-alias, Fabric, id, inter, ivr, lock, mds, member, name, powershell, pwwn, rename, routing, SAN, Switch, switch-wwn, topology, transit, vsan, wizard, WWN, zone, zoneset, zoning
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Bulk add zones on Brocade FOS using Powershell
In my previous post I presented a script which makes it much faster to add many zones to a Cisco MDS switch with the use of the “single initiator – single target” principle. lately I have been working with some … Continue reading
Bulk add zones on Cisco MDS SAN using Powershell
When adding many zones to an existing zoneset, it can be a large amount of work when using the “single initiator – single target” principle. About two years ago, my collegue Jon Klaus http://goo.gl/tliyn created a very cool VBS script … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco MDS, Powershell, Scripting
Tagged 9000, 9100, 9124, 9134, 9148, 9500, brocade, channel, Cisco, clariion, config, EMC, end, ESX, ESXi, Fabric, fcalias, fibre, front, initiator, inter, ivr, mds, member, microsoft, name, Port, powershell, ps, ps1, routing, SAN, single, sist, Switch, switching, target, terminal, vbs, VMware, VNX, vsan, vSphere, zone, zoning
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Cisco UCS with VNX and vSphere: Booting from SAN
Last week we were installing a new vSphere 5 environment on a Cisco UCS platform with the EMC VNX5300 storage platform for a customer and decided to use the really cool new feature called “Auto Deploy” which makes it possible to use stateless … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS, EMC VNX, SAN, Storage, vSphere 5
Tagged 0, 1, 4, 4.1, 5, add, ALUA, auto, boot, Cisco, clariion, Computing, connectivity, Datastore, deploy, disk.enablenavireg, EMC, end, environment, ESX, esx5, ESXi, esxi5, Fabric, fabrics, from, front, HBA, host, initiator, navisphere, policy, Port, primary, Profile, profiles, pxe, SAN, secondary, Service, single, Stateless, status, Storage, target, UCS, Unified, unisphere, vcenter, vHBA, VMFS, vNIC, VNX, vnx5300, vSphere, WWN, wwpn, zone, zoning
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Cisco UCS Powershell Toolkit: Adding bulk VLAN
When connecting the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects to your existing LAN Infrastructure, you need to add the VLAN’s manually due to the fact that UCS does not support VTP (VLAN Trunk Protocol). Inside this blogpost I will specify two basic … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS, Powershell
Tagged add-ucsvlan, array, Cisco, comma, Computing, connect-ucs, csv, dimensional, editor, emulator, Fabric, FI, get-credential, id, id's, import-csv, instance, Interconnect, invoke-ucsxml, LAN, library, module, multi, name, native, powergui, powershell, protocol, script, seperated, simulator, System, template, toolkit, trunk, two, UCS, ucslancloud, Unified, vlan, vlan's, vNIC, vtp
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Cisco UCS Uplink Features
When connecting your Cisco UCS blade environment to your existing LAN, the traffic from your blades to the rest of your network, use a predefined path. This means that there is no real load balancing or round robin mechnism from your … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS
Tagged 2, 3, balance, balancing, Blade, blades, border, Cisco, domain, ehv, end-host, enhanced, eth-uplink, even, Extender, external, Fabric, Group, groups, Interconnect, internal, l2, l3, LAN, layer, load, loop, loops, mode, npv, odd, pan, path, pinning, Port, portfast, robin, round, routing, SAN, scope, set, size, slot, spanning, spanning-tree, stp, Switch, switching, telnet, traffic, tree, UCS, uplink, virtualization, virtualizer, vnlink
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Recoverpoint: SANTap splitting can give you a headache
When deciding to implement a Recoverpoint environment, you have to decide which splitter(s) you will use to duplicate and redirect the I/O’s to your replication target, whether this is a local copy or a remote copy. You can use a … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, Disaster Recovery, EMC, SAN
Tagged 9100, 9200, 9500, addressing, agile, backend, channel, Cisco, copy, cvt, device, disaster, domain, domain-id, dr, EMC, Fabric, FC, fcid, fibre, frontend, host, HP, hp-ux, hpux, id, initiator, ITL, local, LUN, mds, module, Recoverpoint, recovery, remote, rpa, SAN, santap, splitter, splitting, SSM, Switch, target, unix, vi, vsan, WWN
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Cisco MDS with Inter-VSAN routing: Keep it simple!
When working at the SAN level, or the storage networking level, you always have to watch the Domain ID, which represents the unique ID of the SAN switch that is a member of the Fabric. Anyone who works at the … Continue reading
Cisco UCS and the vSphere awareness
In my previous post I outlined the ideal combination between EMC’s VNX storage platform and vSphere 5, without even address the real vSphere VNX awareness using the Virtual Storage Integrator. To complete the VCE circle, I want to focus this … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS
Tagged Blade, Bladecenter, C7000, Cisco, Computing, CPU, Datacenter, Dimm, Distributed, EMC, enclosure, ESX, Extender, Fabric, FC, FCoE, FLOGI, Group, HBA, HP, Interconnect, IP, LAN, Link, MAC, Machine, Memory, Mezzanine, NIC, npiv, npv, Port, Profile, Rack, RAM, SAN, Series, Server, Service, Socket, Stateless, Switch, System, UCS, Unified, Unit, VCE, vHBA, VIC, Virtual, VM, vMotion, VMware, VN, VN-link, vNIC, VNX, vSphere, vSwitch, WWN
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