As with all good stuff there are always people and companies that try to jump on the bandwagon and make some dollars by using cheap kit and sell it as \”Original\” or \”Compatible\” or \”Vendor equivalent\”. Don\’t fall for this trap and simply buy Original Vendor Branded & Supported equipment. One example is FiberStore.
Brocade \”compatible\” SFP\’s will disrupt your fabric. Read More »
As with all good stuff there are always people and companies that try to jump on the bandwagon and make some dollars by using cheap kit and sell it as \”Original\” or \”Compatible\” or \”Vendor equivalent\”. Don\’t fall for this trap and simply buy Original Vendor Branded & Supported equipment. One example is FiberStore.
Brocade \”compatible\” SFP\’s will disrupt your fabric. Read More »
One of the regularly used features in BNA is the ability to retain performance numbers and a history of port errors. It is then most annoying when these graphs show a flatline when you know there is a significant amount of traffic traversing these links.
Brocade Network Advisor Performance Graphs flatline Read More »
As a support-guy you very often look at port counters. These do not only provide insight into the status of a port but also may give statistical information which allows you to plan and design new connectivity layouts and diagrams or give some general advice. If you look at the wrong counters though you may
Port counters may be flawed. Read More »
I\’ve written about Fabric Watch quite a lot and I have always stressed the usefulness of this licensed add-on as a feature in FOS. This post will outline the major characteristics of MAPS and why you should migrate now. As of FOS 7.2 there has been a transition from Fabric Watch to MAPS (Monitoring and
1.1 – MAPS – Know what\’s going on. Read More »
I\’ve written about Fabric Watch quite a lot and I have always stressed the usefulness of this licensed add-on as a feature in FOS. This post will outline the major characteristics of MAPS and why you should migrate now. As of FOS 7.2 there has been a transition from Fabric Watch to MAPS (Monitoring and
1.1 – MAPS – Know what\’s going on. Read More »
So now and then you run into this issue where, no matter which configuration you try, a switch port always shows: 86 10 6 3a5600 id N8 Online FC L-Port 1 public Even though all settings seem to be OK, fillwords are correct, HBA or array settings are the same as others, no
Port stuck in L-port mode Read More »
Normally I don\’t send out these notices as I think its the responsibility of the storage administrator and vendor sales-teams to keep up-to-date with product life-cycles, however in this case I make an exception. The Brocade 48000 has been a very reliable workhorse since 2006 where it succeeded the, then seemingly overpriced, 12000 and 24000
Brocade 48000 director End-of-Support notification Read More »
Whenever you see a leap in a minor version there is a bucket-load of new functions and features in software and FOS 7.4.0 is no exception. Besides the usual bugfixes and snippet enhancements there are a few that I would like to highlight here.
The awesomeness of Brocade FOS 7.4 Read More »
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 their software and hardware stack into this computing methodology. Acquisitions like Foundry, Vyatta and now Connectem show that the horizon has broadened the views of Brocade. To
The technical pathways of Brocade in cloud storage adoption Read More »
