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How do you connect to fiber switches?

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I have a new IBM Blade Center H with 2 internal fiber switch modules. 6 external ports / 14 internal ports. I have an existing DELL / EMC SAN running on 2 McData DS4700M 32 port switchs. I'd like to connect the Blade switches to the existing switches

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) ?

How to add a new user in Brocade 200E f/b ?

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Hello All,   could any one help to add a new user account in Brocade 200E f/b switch. right now i have only one id 'administrator'. is theere any options to add more users as admins?   Regards,   Raju

Brocade SAN SW 300 showing "No_Sync" status in port

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Hi All,   We have recently bought two new DELL PowerEdge R620 x8 Chassis server.  For storage connectivity for the new servers they also procured below items:- 1.QLogic 8262, Dual Port 10Gb SFP+, Low Profile, Converged Network Adapter

Issues with software upgrade

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Hi team,   Appreciate your help here as I am not able to upgrade 6510 switch to latest software version   We are running currently on v7.0.0a Brocade6510_117:admin> firmwareshow Appl     Primary/Secondary Versions

How I can upgrade firmware Silkworm 48000?

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  How I can upgrade firmware Silkworm 48000? Can I upgrade online ?     I want to backup firmware and configuration before upgrade. Please, help to suggest me to backup and upgrade firmware.            

Design guidelines two c7000

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First of all, I’m a FC novice but want to learn   We have one HP C7000 blades system with 2 x Brocade 4Gb SAN Switches and currently utilizing 12 ports for a MSA2000 and EVA6400. We want to add an additional C7000 with 2x Brocade 8Gb SAN

Brocade P/N: 57-1000117-01 8GB SFP can't find in the support matrix

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Hi, i have a brocade 300, which the SFP is 57-1000117-01, but i can't find the specification in brocade web site. Could any one know this

SAN migration - Connecting switches via ISL

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Hello everyone. My goal here is to understand the correct procedure for temporarily connecting an older SAN with 2 Brocade 300 switches to a newer SAN with 2 Brocade 6505 switches in order to svmotion the vms on the old SAN to the new SAN. I've read

Brocade 7800 fcip tunnel with one circuit on two gbe ports

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Hi,   I have to configure fcip tunnel with one circuit on two gbe ports on Brocade 7800 routers on both sites. When ipaddress is assigned, do I need to assign separate ipaddress to both two gbe ports and one circuit OR only assign ipaddress to only

(Dell) Brocade M5424 FOS 7.x Firmware Upgrade -> where?

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Hi,   we bought the M5424 togehter with Dell Bladecenters and I wonder where we can get a firmware update from 6.4.2 to 7.x? I had no chance at the Dell Website nor was a Dell Support Agent able to help me.   Any ideas where to get? Thanks!

EOL and EOSL for Brocade Switches

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Hi Everyone,   This is my first post here. So first of all saying hello to everyone. Hope I will share my views here and will also learn a lot from all of you guy's experience.   Here my first query goes. I want to know the EOL as well as

How do you export port mappings?

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I'm a newbie on Fiber switches - can someone tell me how I can export the port mappings from a Brocade 5424  switch (the WWN of the servers plugged into each port)?  We definitiely have zoning problems and our SAN has been down twice

Long Distance ISL Trunking over 100km supported ?

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Hi all, The latest documentation says that trunking over long distance is supported. See http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/data_sheets/product_data_sheets/isl-trunking-ds.pdf   When checking the lastest FOS 7.x docu there is a table (see

How to get new license keys

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hey,   i got a brocade confirmation paper with serial and transaction key from my reseller to get 8 new ports for my 2 switches. i cant seem to find the right URL, my brocadeconnect login does not work for the software portal. what shall i do ?

Anti-virus program detects some security vulnerabilities on switch with FOS 6.3.1a

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Hi Experts,   There're some security vulnerabilities on brocade switch running FOS 6.3.1a are detected by customer's anti-virus program: 1. OpenSSH GSSAPI -- remote code execution 2. OpenSSH sshd Privilege Separation Monitor - unknown

additional clarification needed, changing IP's on a production switch

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I posted a question here a few days ago about changing the managment IP while the switch is in production. The response I received indicated that it was possible to change the IP while the switch in question is running production without any disruption

What Non-ISL:ISL Fan out ratio mean ?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

SAN switch -- not working

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One of our 32-port switch is not working from the past 6 months, today i just have looked at it. When i power on the switch, on the console, i can see that it continuously doing some diagnostics testing and continuously dumping cores.   I am not

Licensing Question - Port Trunking

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I just recently purchased (2) 6520 switches that I want to interconnect to my existing fabric.  I know I can do a simple ISL to get connectivity but do I need any additional licensing if I wanted to trunk 2 or more links?  I’ve checked
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