Aug 30, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Creating Cisco MDS 9700 Switch Configuration Backup Scheduled Job

Scenario Recently was tasked with creating a scheduled job to backup  the running-config on our Cisco MDS9710 switch and TFTP it to another server. It was a great task to learn a bit about the scheduling piece in the switch and what command can be run. Create the Job First is to get the switch on config mode mds-sw1# config Next create a job called backup-cfg mds-sw1(config)# scheduler job name backup-cfg... read more

Aug 21, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Use Device-Alias on a Cisco MDS

As I continue on my journey of learning how to manage storage I have learned about using device aliases instead of pwwn’s directly. The benefit to using device-alias in this manner makes it easy when a device has new pwwn’s assigned to it (due to hardware replacement or in the case of a blade a move to a new chassis) that you can update the device-alias and not have to make any other storage... read more

Jul 31, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to Use SYMCLI in offline mode

Recently I made a job change and have delved into the Storage arena and supporting EMC storage products. One of the products is EMC Symmetrix . With that comes learning how to use the product and the syntax of the various commands. As to not cause any damage to the systems and learn found System Enabler can be used in offline mode installed on a Windows and Linux system. SYMCLI is the most widely used EMC... read more