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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CISCO MDS · NX-OS COMMAND REFERENCE
Cisco MDS NX-OS Command Reference for Production SAN Operators
130+ read-only show commands across 11 categories — switch identity, environment, system health, processes, interfaces, FLOGI, FCNS, VSAN, zoning, device-alias, fabric-binding. Each command lists what it shows, when to run it, and a production-realistic output captured from MDS 9710 directors.
~25 min read
WUC Engineering
Published May 2026
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DELL POWERSCALE · ONEFS COMMAND REFERENCE
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) OneFS Command Reference for Production Storage Operators
90+ OneFS commands across 9 families — cluster health, node hardware, SmartConnect networking, SmartPools and protection, AD/LDAP identity, hung-session recovery, performance, SyncIQ and CloudPools, ACLs. Every command is safety-rated read-only, disruptive, or destructive, with representative outputs, four incident runbooks, and a DR failover procedure.
~30 min read
WUC Engineering
Published July 2026
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DELL POWERSCALE · DATA PROTECTION
PowerScale Data Protection: SmartPools Settings, Requested Protection, and What SmartFail Actually Does
Every SmartPools global setting explained — virtual hot spare, spillover, GNA, L3, and the “apply to manually-managed protection” checkbox that silently erases every override on the cluster. Plus the 2N+1 node-count rule that decides which protection levels are achievable, how to set 3x mirroring, and why a 3-node cluster refuses a SmartFail.
~16 min read
WUC Engineering
Published July 2026
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