I understand, and I appreciate the replies everyone has given so far. I guess I was just hoping to maybe run across someone that had dealt with a similar issue...

The Pure storage array has 8 total 8Gb fiber connections to a pair of Nexus 5ks, 4 per fabric. The host itself has dual 8Gb fiber links to the same...

So I will try to give as much info as I can. As I said, I do not administer this server or am not a DBA, just trying to help...