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December 3rd, 2009 00:00

Difference between Cisco and Brocade

Hi,

I am used to Brocade switches, I have never configure (zoning) a FC

Cisco switch and I would like to know if the way to configure it is quite

different from Brocade.

Thanks

Regards

Consty

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December 3rd, 2009 03:00

the syntax is different but the process is pretty much the same. Add host to VSAN, create alias, create zone, add aliases to zone, add zone to active zone set, activate active zone set. Cisco has great documentation on their website

http://cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5989/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html

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December 3rd, 2009 04:00

Dynamox makes it all sound so easy

First of all a VSAN in Cisco country is a fabric in Brocade country. So each VSAN has it's own name service, aliases, zones and zoneset.

Create VSAN 50 or so. Assign ports to VSAN 50 and create aliases, zones and a zoneset in this VSAN through Fabric Manager. FM is a GUI based config tool. Of course you can also configure on the CLI, that's up to you.

After having configured and activated a zoneset, don't forget to save the config ! In Cisco country this is done by "copy run start" or in the GUI automatically when you try to end the GUI. The GUI will ask you to save the config as well.

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December 3rd, 2009 06:00

RRR wrote:

Dynamox makes it all sound so easy


I understand man, you are a consultant so can't be too easy otherwise who would hire you right ?

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December 3rd, 2009 07:00

From now on we don't tell anyone the exact solution anymore. In fact your way is better, since people have to figure it out themselves and when they don't want to or simply can't, they'd hire us
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