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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 [..]
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, [..]
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 [..]
Time to rethink your zoning strategy –peerzones
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 [..]
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 [..]