RESOURCES · FIELD GUIDES

Engineering Field Guides

CLI-level operational reference material for production storage, networking, and infrastructure work. Written by WUC engineers from real engagement experience — not vendor marketing.

Each guide covers a specific operational procedure: change-control framing, command sequences with annotations, single-initiator best-practice notes, verification steps across Linux / Windows / ESXi where applicable, and an explicit “when to escalate to WUC” boundary.

Maintained by WUC engineering · Multi-OEM: Cisco MDS · Brocade · NetApp · EMC · Pure · HPE 3PAR · Updated as production patterns evolve
CISCO MDS · SAN ZONING

Cisco MDS Zoning: A Field Guide for NetApp AFF Dual-Fabric Setups

CLI reference for creating zones, decommissioning hosts, and swapping HBA WWPNs during hardware replacement on Cisco MDS switches paired with NetApp AFF storage. Covers SIST best practice, show zone pending-diff safety gates, and host-side path verification on Linux, Windows, and ESXi.

9 min read · WUC Engineering · Published May 2026
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IN PROGRESS · ADDITIONAL GUIDES

Field guides currently in draft

NetApp ONTAP aggregate & volume provisioning Pure Storage host group + LUN setup EMC VPLEX distributed device creation Cisco UCS service profile deployment VMware vSphere datastore expansion under change control Dell PowerStore volume migration HPE 3PAR / Primera virtual volume creation Brocade fabric merge & zone import
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