How does VCS Ethernet Fabric interact with Spanning-Tree?
Greetings, One of our clients is planning to expand his network infrastructure to support a new hosted virtual server service offering. I am looking at the Brocade 6720 switches with VCS as a...
View ArticleNo_Module display in switch 200e
Dears, after checking in the brocade switch the 11 port gives me No_Module error kindly find attached snapshot... let me know how to solve this problem.. and if you have solutions for this then...
View ArticleShortest Path Bridging (SPB; IEEE 802.1aq) vs TRILL/VCS
Hello all. We are getting more and more in the discussions and competition at customers on how to setup a DC network and especially how to interconnect to DCs which have a big distance (>5...
View ArticleSFP+ modules and licensing for VDX
I would like to buy 4 pcs of VDX 6720-40 switches to build VCS fabric solution. 1) Licenses a) To form VCS fabric for all 4 switches I have to order additional VCS license for each switch ? (total...
View ArticleNeed help with RADIUS (Win2k8 & FastIron WS 648G Switch)
Dear support of Brocade, I have a question about the working of RADIUS (Win2k8) with the combination of the FastIron WS 648G Switch. We have RADIUS working on the switch, but we can’t find a way to...
View ArticleVCS Ethernet fabrics and STP
Spanning Tree is one of the classic Ethernet issues that Brocade VCS technology tackled. An Ethernet fabric does not need STP to prevent loops. Instead, it uses link state routing, of which there...
View ArticleDesign/inter-site connectivity question (10Gb/s)
Good day All, - Let's say I have a situation in which I have 4 physical sites. With 3 sites to be connected independently to the 4th central site. - The longest distance between any 2 sites is about...
View ArticleFCoE SAN for Media and Entertainment
Hello forum members: I'm the engineer at a small but growing post production facility and it has come time for us to deploy a SAN. I'm trying to use FCoE for the SAN because it seems like the right...
View Articleswitch management inside the vcs
Hi, I have a bunch of VDX6710 switches. They are configured for two independent fabrics, vcs-1 and vcs-2. This all works nicely. All switches are running NOS 2.1.1 and have the vcs license installed....
View ArticleCEE map & AMPP QoS profile in VCS
Hi all, Could you please help me clarify the following? VDX configuration referred: 1 (config)#cee-map default 2 (config-cee-map-default)#priority-table 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 15.0 3
View ArticleXISL configuration appear the following error "FC E-Port segmented,(ESC...
Dear expert: I have connect the both logical switches in the same physical switch and appear the upper error. I have reviewed all the parameters in both switches with configshow -fid and configshow...
View Article10G SFP can work at 1G?
Hi all, anyone know if a 10G SFP (10G-SFPP-SR) in a VDX6720 can work at 1G or I have to replace the SFP with 1G SFP (E1MG-SX-OM). Thank you !
View ArticleProblem forming a VCS cluster with VDX6720
Hi, we've just bought 4 VDX6720-24 systems and 4 VCS software licenses for our DC. The systems arrived with the NOS 2.1.1 software installed. After installing the VCS licenses on all boxes I started...
View ArticleSFP fiber & copper
Hi all, does anyone knows if is there any problem for mixing differents SFP, fiber and copper, on same ASIC? Switch is VDX6720 and SFPs are: 10G-SFPP-SR (10GBASE-SR) XBR-000190 (1 GbE copper) Thank...
View ArticleHow to configure tapelibrary having two tape drives with backup server having...
HI Friends, If we are having one brocade300 san switch ,storage,one tapelibrary having two drives (each drive having one fc port)and a back up server having two hba cards(2 ports each) but we are...
View ArticleVDX NOS 2.1: virtual IP? single fabric cluster management?
Dear all. I am testing the latest VDX NOS v2.1 in my lab. Could someone please explain me the advantage of the new feature "virtual IP address"? What is the benefit? Where is the feature...
View ArticleVDX6720 upgrade from 2.0.1b to 2.1.1 - What can I expect?
I've scheduled an upgrade on my two production VDX 6720 this Friday from 2.0.1b to 2.1.1. Has anyone had any experience with this, and what can I expect? These boxes are in a production environment...
View ArticleUpgrade to NOS 2.1.1
My team just got two new VDX 6720-24 switches. They are running 2.0.1a out of the box. Should we bump them up to NOS 2.1.1? What is the most stable NOS release this far? The usual line of...
View ArticlePinging on a VDX
New to the VDX platform, so sorry in advance for the ignorance. In trying to test the integrity of the hardware, I disabled vcs, reloaded, and put an ip address on vlan 1 to test the ports. Then I...
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