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PortFencing – the hard or soft way?
As you can read in my previous articles (here, here and here) having a physical issue on any of you FC links is detrimental to your entire FC [..]
Dynamic connectivity overview in “switchshow” output
In a Brocade environment the “switchshow” is one of the most used commands out there. It provides a quick overview of what the state of the switch is, [..]
The DCX man has retired.
In 2008 Brocade announced the 8G director class switches DCX and DCX-4S. A rather impactful release of a new piece of hardware where the next generation FC ASIC [..]
Crackdown on FOS support
If you’ve read my articles over the last decade or so you’ve seen I’m keen on maintenance. Both from a physical hardware as well as software perspective a [..]
BNA before 14.4.1 is no longer supported
I’ve already mentioned that BNA was End-of-Life and will/is (be) replaced by SANNav. As of the time of this writing any BNA version older than 14.4.1 is no [..]
Initiator, Target, Both or None ??
Whenever you’ve encountered an output of a nameserver entry you may have come across the phenomenon that the fabric has no clue what the attached device is. For [..]
When to replace an SFP
Maybe the title should be “When to NOT replace an SFP” as I see in many occasions it is seen as a first option of fixing problems. In [..]
FOS 8.2.0 – The first Broadcom FOS release.
With the transition to Broadcom the Brocade entity now operating under that flag has release it’s first major release 8.2.0. The release notes show a somewhat strange title: [..]
Brocade is no more
Exactly 20 years ago I installed my first Fibre Channel switch. It was from a startup company founded by Kumar Malavalli, Paul Bonderson and Seth Neiman who wanted [..]