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Category Archives: Storage Networking
Data Corruption in Storage Area Networks
If there is one thing that gets people relatively annoyed is that their data is not available for a certain amount of time. You can’t get to your...
Host based mirroring kills your storage network!!
System administrators are very inventive and lazy. I know, I used to be one of them. 🙂 Everything that can be done to make ones life easier is...
Bro(ad)c(a|o)(de|m) – Brocade to Broadcom What’s next?
A relatively simple regular expression is all that needed to change all marketing material and documentation but the consequences for customers are significant. In the short term everything [..]
Why frames get dropped at your storage array
Arrays from all vendors have significant troubleshooting capabilities but in most cases these are scambled in the most obscure way you can imagine. You need special tools to...
Ficon Dynamic Routing (FIDR)
In the storage world there mainly have been two environments : 1 FCP and 2. SBCC which stands for Fibre Channel – Protocol and Single Byte Command Code [..]
Brocade FOS version 8 and 32G hardware
If you’ve been laying low during Christmas last year and have overlooked that Brocade announced its first to market with “Gen 6” (32G) hardware and FOS code 8, [..]
Reset the Zoning Configuration and Prevent Mistakes.
There are occasions where you need to remove an entire zoning configuration from a switch. One of them is if you need to add a switch to an...
Appalling state of Storage Networks
In the IT world a panic is most often related to a operating systems kernel to run out of resources or some unknown state where it cannot recover...
CiscoLive! Melbourne – 2016
Having to miss last years edition I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this years CiscoLive! conference in my hometown Melbourne again. Venue was excellent as [..]