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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...
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...
9.2 – Long Distance configurations – CWDM/DWDM
One of the most complex ways of implementing long distance connectivity is using CWDM or DWDM extension equipment. Reason being is that the technology is often fairly complex...
Traffic Isolation Zoning – The mistake of FOS
If there is one thing I would consider “the” blunder of FOS engineering it has to be Traffic Isolation zoning. I mean, creating such an administrative nightmare with [..]
1.2 Flow Vision
This subject will be divided in two sections. Flow Monitor and Generator Flow Mirror In FOS 7 the concept of frame-monitoring was introduced on Condor2 and Condor3 ASICs....