With the advance of the FC-GS and FC-SW protocols the change, or more the enhancement, of being able to use Target Driven Zoning provided Brocade with the option to tinker a bit on the implementation of the functionality.
Category Archives: Brocade Technical
tim_txcrd_z What is it? What does it represent?
I get a huge amount of questions and nervous customers who tell me they see this counter increasing at an alarming rate and want to know if this is a problem or not.
The answer is yes and no. 🙂
That doesn’t help you much does it? Read on…..
Why FDMI is compulsory (or should be!!)
FDMI stands for Fabric Device Management Interface and is such an enormously cool feature and unfortunately one of the least used. From an operational management perspective FDMI provides a wealth of information to the fabric regarding the attached devices. The thing that flabbergasted me is that almost no device (HBA/Array) has this turned on of even has the functionality embedded.
Open Source Software (OSS) and security breaches in proprietary firmware
It is no secret that many vendors use open source software in their products and solutions. One of the most ubiquitous is Linux which is often the base of many of these products and used as core-OS because of it’s flexibility and freely available status without the need of keeping track of licenses (to some extent) and costs.
These OSS tools have different development back-grounds and are subject to policies of the person (or people/companies) who develop it. This obviously results in the fact that defects or bugs may result in security issues especially when it involves network related applications. Recently the bugs in OpenSSL and Apache have gain much traction as some of these are fairly significant and can result in access breaches or denial of service.