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SAN80B IFL issue

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Hello team,   I am configuring  new SAN setup consisting of SAN80B with Integrated Routing EX to E port link after i configured EX port on production site and E port on DR site and enabled the port . both the ports are not coming online and i

C3 Frames Discarded at ISL Ports

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Hello everybody,   we have 4 DCX Directors in a Two Fabric topology and two datacenters   Between the datacenters the directors are connectet with longwave ISLs. In the last time appear on some ISL ports "C3 Frames Discarded" errors.  

Brocade 300 SAN Switch : Backup Config File

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Hi,   I'm not able to download the config file from my san switch through USB port. Non of the USB stick i had is working. Just wonder do you need certain USB stick to work on the switch? SCP and FTP is not working on my side here. Any other best

Looking for core switch administration tasks

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I have some experiences DMS switches, things like setting up zone, alias, configuration etc, but never had any experience on core switches since  SAN scale here is relative small.   Would you please list these tasks that usually are required

Chassis is not ready for management now. Please try after some time.

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I am having this issue with a 48000 director with FW 6.2.0g after adding it to the Fabric. There are 30 switches in the fabric and all are accessible via telnet. Webtools works on all but the 48000 which says "Chassis is not ready for management now.

8gb ports and fillword

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I have Brocade DCX directors and all of the ports have the fillword set to 0.  Should I go ahead and set all ports fillword to 3.  As we move forward we are adding more and more 8gb devices and none of them are fillword 3.  Is there a

Credit recovery with Virtual Channels enabled over ISL

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I have credit recovery enabled on ISLs having Virtual Channels enabled. But, I do see tim_txcrd_z errors being increased on ISLs. Does credit recovery is supported in Virtual Channels???   Thanks for the help.

FOS upgrade from V6.4.3b to 7.0.0c failed.

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Hi,   I am trying to Upgrade FOS v6.4.3b to 7.0.0c on my DCX-4S and getting below error message:   The following item(s) need to be addressed before downloading the specified firmware: Upgrade to 7.0 is not allowed because the threshold

question on slow drain

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I have one of the switch ports generating high volume of "Class 3 receive frames discarded due to timeout" errors.. er_rx_c3_timeout  2707    Does it mean, the device is a slow drain device ???

Design Question

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    Hello all,   I was wondering if someone a little more technical than me can help.   So I was given a case where the customer bought 2 SAN24B switches for each site and has fiber between the sites. the customer also bought 2

steps to configure FCIP Brocade 7800

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Hello Team   I have two 7800 in my primary Data Center which is directly connected to Storage Array Two 7800 in my Remote DC which is connected to DCX via ISL. I have one Gbps line between these two DC. Can somebody help me with basic

Shutdown a switch properly

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Few of our switches doesn't Power I/O buttron on the rear/back side of the switch.   What is the right process for to power off these kind of switches (don't want pull-out the power cable) ?

Brocade Switch Status Down

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Hi All,      I have a Brocade Switch whose status went down after two ports went faulty. But now i see the faulty ports are online(past 1 day) and there are no switch events but still the switch status is shown as down. Is there any

Cisco Nexus 5020 Uplink to Brocade DS 5100

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I need to perform the following and need guidance / white papers on how to accomplish this.  Much published articles available cover how to uplink a Nexus to a Cisco MDS switch (of course); however, after several days of searching, I have come up

cannot load RBACMatrix

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I have a Brocade DS5000 getting this error. My client java version is 1.5.0_20   DS5000 Current HTTP configuration       javaplugin.version = 1,5,0,6       javaplugin.homeURL =

Question about zoning

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Hello,   I have inherited 2 Brocade 48K switches. I am familiar with Cisco line of fabric switches and fibre channel in general but have never used the Brocade brand. The zoning is already setup on these switches and I need to make a new san

ASIC boundaries

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Hi, I have a 24 port 8Gb SAN switch. To get the best performance out of the switch I would like to connect the storage array to port 0,4,8 and 12. Does anybody know how the ASIC's are allocated (wired)? Or is it better to make an offset of 8 ?  

IBM BladeCenter usng 4Gb 20Port Brocade FC Switch module to Cisco MDS9000(9509) SAN in AG mode

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  Hi.     I have an IBM BladeCenter that uses a Brocade 4Gb swtich module in Access Gateway mode to connect to our SAN that uses a CISCO MDS9000 (9509) switch.  I have noticed an article about Blades with QLogic HBAs where all the

Full duplex definition?

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I'm setting up some monitoring of my switches and ran into a bandwidth question.  How exactly is full duplex defined?  Is 4Gb full duplex 4Gb each way or 2Gb+2Gb Tx/Rx?  Any links to official Brocade documentation on this would be helpful.

Configuring Hard Zone from Scratch

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I have been tasked with configuing Hard Zoning on our 2 Brocade 4/12 SAN Switches.  I am new to storage and am unsure of how to proceed. The switches are un-configured. The switches are connected to a MSA2000 SAN with a single Virtual Disk divided
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