(Update on Mar/04/2015 BNA and Webtool certificate expiration at the bottom of this post) (Update on Mar/19/2015 Followup on FOS level 6.x at the bottom of this post) Since Oracle have tightened the screws on security they increased requirements on how these needs to be fulfilled.
Brocade Webtools and Java Read More »
For the past two years I\’ve attended Cisco Live here in my hometown Melbourne. I must admit that it is one of the best organized events I\’ve been to. Not only is there a huge diversity in technology and solutions presented but you can also check out the broad ecosystem of Cisco partners. If you
Pretty often you get into some sort of mode whereby I forget that there are many youngsters getting their feet wet in the storage arena and some things are hard to grasp on. Traffic flow is one of them so here we go.
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In some of my previous articles here and here I explained how to obtain a supportsave via BNA (Brocade Network Advisor) and/or DCFM (Data Centre Fabric Manager) and which one to grab. But what happens if you don\’t have BNA or are not able to manage these switches via BNA. The best way to do
How to obtain a Brocade SupportSave without BNA or DCFM Read More »
Sigh….. yet another post to debunk some FCoE marketing and explain in some more details why FCoE is not good for Business Continuity (or business in general).
Why FCoE is bad for Business (Continuity) Read More »
I had an interesting case the week. According to the customer there had been some maintenance activities on their cabling infrastructure and shortly thereafter the ISL\’s would come up but there was absolutely no way these two would form a trunk. First thought is what happened in the configuration, DWDM/CDWM changes, switch configuration modified etc
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Due to an (yet) unknown cause it seems the webcomponent of the Host Connectivity Manager in Brocade HCM (the agent part of the adapter driver) has placed an incorrect value in the abyss (webserver) configuration file (abyss.conf). The \”ServerRoot\” entry points to C;\\hbaagent whereas it should\’ve pointed to \”<install dir>\\BROCADE\\Adapter\\driver\\util\\hbaagent\”. The issue happened in this
Brocade HCM on Windows does not start Read More »
A fair number of people have reported that when they want to provision storage to a host this doesn\’t seem to work. Only after bouncing a FC port or rebooting the host these LUNs become visible. Others reported that it only works when they provision LUNs and zones in a particular order. So how is
Unable to provision new Luns (and how to solve it) Read More »
In Australia there are basically two camps in the government that promote (or make it seem like they do) very fast internet connection speeds. The Labor party started this off a couple of years ago with the introduction of the NBN (National Broadband Network). Its intention is (or rather was) to provide almost every household
Australia and the doomed NBN Read More »
Obviously when we need to analyze problems we need to have the correct data. No use of looking at tires when your headlight is broke.
Supportsave…which one ??? Read More »
