Tag Archives: management
HBA Firmware and Drivers – The Storage Grey Area
Whenever things goes haywire on an OS or application there are two areas that are looked at first: Networks Storage In a fair few cases the issue is...
The technical pathways of Brocade in cloud storage adoption
Brocade isn’t always very forthcoming about what they are working on. Obviously a fair chunk of development and engineering efforts are spent on cloud integration and enablement of...
2 – Creating the management landscape
The first thing to think of when creating a Brocade storage network has nothing to do with a switch configuration at all. Its about the surrounding management landscape....
Brocade Network Advisor – Java memory size.
Houdini was a master in getting out of these things. Out of a swimming pool with a Straight-Jacket on I mean. This week I had an analogy to...
Why Fibre-Channel has to improve
Many of you have used and managed fibre-channel based storage networks over the years. It comes to no surprise that a network protocol primarily developed to handle extremely...
The first law of the Time Lords | Aussie Storage Blog
A buddy of mine posted this article and it reminded me of the presentation I did for the Melbourne VMUG back in April of this year. The first...
Storage in 2013 and beyond.
It’s comes to no surprise that a couple of technologies really struck in 2012. Flash disk drives, and specifically in flash arrays, have gone mainstream. One more technology still clinging on is...
Brocade Fabric Watch – The most underutilised feature
Many customer cases I handle are related to poor connectivity. A connectivity problem can be caused by unclean connectors, broken cables or SFP’s. (See one of my earlier...
Save money managing storage effectively
How much tools do you use to manage your storage environment. On average the storage admin uses 5 tools to manage a storage infrastructure. 1. Host tools (for...
RTFM
Yeah its been a while. A lot has happened in two years. One thing that really jumps out is I moved Down Under. Yep, now inhabitant of kangarooland...